OccaM

January 27th, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^

Wow doesn't look too bad... I was expecting much worse considering no one outside Marvel seems to do F4 or Spiderman justice with exception to XMen. 

Get Jim Harbaugh

January 27th, 2015 at 9:55 AM ^

I know what you mean. I'd LOVE to see Marvel get their hands on the characters they actually own (X-Men and Spider-Man). Fox did OK with some X-Men movies, but others not too great. Looking back at the Sony Spider-Man movies, they're dog shit. The reboots aren't that great either, but better. And now Sony is allegedly looking to reboot Spider-Man AGAIN. Like, just GTFO, Sony. You're obviously doing it wrongly. Sell the property to Marvel (the rightful owners) and just move on with something else. Let Marvel make us a great Spider-Man movie franchise.

Get Jim Harbaugh

January 27th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^

I love the Marvel movies and this one looks great. On Saturday, when the M game was on, I was switching back and forth during commercial to the original FF movie and my GOD is that bad compared to what we have now in Marvel movies. I remember seeing FF for the first time and I was like "wow this is sweet." Not anymore. They're bad, along with the Sony Spider-Man movies.

GoBlueInNYC

January 27th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^

I can't confirm this because I couldn't make it to the end, but I heard that in the second one they made Galactus into a big cloud.

Galactus is one of the coolest, craziest, and scariest characters in the Marvel universe, and they turned him into a space cloud.

His Dudeness

January 27th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^

This movie is going to be hot garbae FYI.

The studio took away the original vision of the director and made him reshoot massive amounts of the movie to make it "more entertaining." Basically they took away character development and added more fighting.

That's never a good sign.

ShootyDooks

January 27th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^

Johnny Storm is white and is being played by a black guy. Are we not forgetting that Sue Storm is white? How did we get to a point where we magically have white and black brother and sister? Yeah, they fcuked that up. And quoted from from the writer of the movie "that the film is not based on a single issue of the Fantastic Four comic books." Wait wut.....

Dilla Dude

January 27th, 2015 at 9:59 AM ^

The perception of this film has been extremely negative ever since production began. I was pleasantly surprised by the teaser, but it will take a bit more to win me over.

Maybe one day Marvel Studios will get the rights back to all of their properties, including F4 and X-Men. Or maybe Fox and Marvel can negotiate a way for the characters to co-exist in the same universe. Alas, that may just be wishful thinking.

superstringer

January 27th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^

The F4 are nobodies, the MCU won't be any better or worse if F4 never rejoin.  Anything the F4 could do, they can have Inhumans do.

Spidey absolutely needs to go back, those movies are getting worse and worse... I mean who'd cast an English actor to play an American superhero?  Geesh.  (Looking at you too, FOX.)  But really, the Spidey movies fail to do anything more than just churn, there's no interesting development of the characters or storylines like MCU is doing with SHIELD, Iron Man, etc., or giving us something entirely out of the box like GOTG.

It's fine and all to have Black Panther play the guy caught in the middle of the Civil War (if rumors are to be true), but would be more natural to have Spidey in that role. Besdies, how does an American government registration act apply to Prince T'Challa of Wakanda?

jerseyblue

January 27th, 2015 at 11:12 AM ^

Fox has gotten better lately with Days of Future Past and First Class but they never got the classic team right which should have taken place in the first 3 movies. The classic team of Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Rogue and Kitty Pryde have yet to be together as an actual team. 

WMUgoblue

January 27th, 2015 at 11:49 AM ^

That team you're actually mentioning isn't the classic team, that's the Giant Sized X-Men team which I'll agree with you is the best team/series of comics they ran. The original team includes: Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, Prof X, and Marvel Girl (Jean Grey.)

PeterKlima

January 27th, 2015 at 10:16 AM ^

I loved the first few "mainstream" comic book movies of the modern era.  But....it needs to stop (forgive me if my memory is not up to par):

After the Superman movies of the 70s (Reeve), there wasn't much until Tim Burton's Batman.  Aside from some weak sequals, the mainstream comic movies were pretty uneventful.

Then Spiderman, Batman (Dark Knight), Iron Man... stuff started to roll out and became big blockbusters.  There was so much money thrown at Hulk movies too in the hopes of widespread success...there seemed to be a new one each year.

Then it seems like the floodgates opened.  Every summer there are huge budget comicbook movies.  More and More and More.   There is even a popular Marvel TV show now and the top sitcom recently (Big Bang) uses comic book culture references a lot.

 I have really enjoyed some of the movies.  But, enough is enough. Over-saturation.  I get it.  A lot more people are staying home from movie theaters than ever before.  The attendance is really only high for things blowing up that "you have to see on the big screen" otherwise we all can get it at home.  We can all guess what is going to happen in the movies, but we check it out (mainly) for the cool special effects.

Moreover, I have young boys.  They play superheros and have pretend "action scenes" all the time.  The last thing I want to do when it is that rare time for me to watch a "grown up" movie or show with my wife is to watch stuff a 5 year old would love talking about all day.

I may catch this one or another if there are no other options, but I am an adult.  Give me an original storyline (not one we know).  Give me less blowing things up and good guy always wins.  Less use of "supernatural powers" which just gives the storyteller carte blanche to make crap up to get out of tight spots.

Down with the main streaming of comic book culture.  It is helping feed our adolescent arrested development as a culture.

 

/rant