Exactly.
And it just looks like more of the same, just with fire instead of water this time.
I hope he has decided that animation will be much easier than the mo-cap or what’s it called, and that he will turn it over to others for the inevitable twenty sequels and tv shows and start making original films again.
This should be the tag line for the franchise. That’s all it’s ever been about.
Sure, why not. I mean, it can’t be worse than the last couple of Pink Panther films. I’d actually be impressed if they could make a version of it worse than that.
Ooh… No! 
Eddie Murphy = no good movies since 1988
Pink Panther = no good movies since 1978
STUDIO EXECUTIVE: “I have an idea that can’t miss!”
I do like Murphy a lot, but his comedy is based on an awareness of his surroundings. Closeau is not aware of it at all.
Let’s see how this will turn out.
Since 88 is a bit harsh: Bowfinger was funny, he was o.k. in Dreamgirls and Tower Heist, Mr. Church and Dolemite had good reviews…
I love BOWFINGER.
The scene on the freeway („Oh, no, no, these are all stuntmen.“) is one of the funniest scenes in movie history.
So, Marvel has not rebounded as outlets stated after the first weekend.
An 80% drop is horrendous, meaning only the die hard fans came out in droves but the broad audience segment probably waits or is disinterested.
„Superman“ is clearly the box office winner here.
I’ve never had any interest in the Fantastic Four as characters and the previous films have been horrendous. Setting this one in the 1960s was a mistake in my opinion, as it would be for any new Bond film.
There’s also the fact the casting doesn’t make this an easy sell. When none of the leads seems even vaguely close to their counterparts it’s an uphill struggle. I don’t mind so much the setting, it’s artificial as a Kirby comic was even back in the 60s where New York was only really a veneer underneath which bizarre fantasy machinations were running rampant…
I’d have loved to have a convincingly cast FF placed in the horror-Disney version of Doom’s Latveria. Fantastic Four would be the Marvel series best suited to an entirely surreal chocolate box imitation that doesn’t even claim to be real.
As is I doubt they will get another outing. Which may be for the best.
They should just shelve Fantastic Four at this point. Four tries at it has proven that audiences do not care.
Hopefully this is a trend that will continue with other superhero movies.
So, they fu..ed it up again…looks almost impossible to make a good F4 film.
Yes, it almost looks like on purpose…cast everyone far away as possible from the source
Can’t say I really share the glee. While the general clogging up of theatres with superhero fare is lamentable, Fantastic Four had some of the most über-bizarre storylines and with Kirby’s artwork a mythopoetic landscape peopled with the subconscious fever dreams of postwar futurism. That was some good stuff in the 60s.
Plus, the basic FF concept was that of a - chosen - family sticking together against the odds; something an era fetishising villainy and inhumanity could actually do more with.
I understand their movie had the task of introducing them so they could be one of the many appearing in the upcoming AVENGERS sequels.
And despite a disappointing performance they still will make more than THUNDERBOLTS.
Next year: SPIDER-MAN and AVENGERS=money!
But apart from those Marvel just has no popular heroes left which can cross over to mainstream audiences.
They should have tried the Annihilius story line in the negative zone instead of this lame 60´s vibe and again Galactus and SS, but in weak…
I liked the original Fantastic Four with Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and Michael Chiklis. I thought that was cast pretty well. The next film Rise Of The Silver Surfer wasn’t as good, and Fant4stic was an abomination.
I did see this version of the Fantastic Four. Going in, I thought Pedro Pascal was completely miscast as Reed Richards, and I thought it would potentially fatally harm the film. I also thought the Thing’s voice wasn’t deep enough. And yes, I would have preferred to see Norrin Radd as the Silver Surfer.
But upon seeing the film, I liked it. I don’t think it’s as good as the original, but I think it’s the next best one. And shockingly, I didn’t dislike Pascal as Richards. I thought he did ok. It’s not his fault he was miscast, but he did about as much as he could have with the role. The theme of family is prevalent throughout the film as it is in the comics, the cast is likable, and Galactus looks great.
All in all, I think it deserves better box office results than what it’s getting, but after Disney/Marvel’s last few bombs, F4 apparently wasn’t given the benefit of the doubt.
Fantastic Four film rankings:
F4 is actually one of the few comic book properties at this point that I would wish to actually see do well at the box office. I actually liked the “first” one (the one with Jessica Alba) for what it was back in the day. But, at this point, it really does feel as though the public has spoken on that property. I can’t really see a studio sinking big money into F4 again anytime soon, given how little they’ve gotten in way of returns each time out. Hopefully this also serves as a lesson to the studios that, when it comes to thinks like comic book films and, cough Bond cough, that going the period piece route is not the way to go.
The superhero genre really just needs to be put on a shelf for a while and be left alone. The studios making these films are just spinning their tires at this point. Marvel has used up just about all of the good ideas that there are to be had and are having to resort to bringing back Robert Downey Jr. in an effort to jumpstart enthusiasm for their brand. And DC’s doing… whatever it is that DC is doing. They quite literally couldn’t pay me to sit through the new Superman movie and it constantly feels like DC is about a decade late to the party that Marvel has already had, sent the guests home, and are just cleaning up from.
