The Fantastic Four

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Yet another comic book movie. The trailer looks pretty good though. Anyone else looking forward to this flick?

 

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It might turn out to be crap, but won't know that until we see it. I hope it is good because The Fantastic Four are pretty cool. The challenge will be to make a movie that is distinctive and not just the same as all the other comic book movies.

 

Personally I thought the trailer looked absolutely terrible. I hope it turns out to be good - the Fantastic Four was my favourite comic book back when I collected comics, but I expect that I will be very much disappointed.

 

Yes, I look forward to this. I liked X-men and Spiderman. I haven't seen The Punisher yet.

 

Lynadin: Do yourself a favour and miss the Punisher. It's punishment watching this terrible movie.

It's hard to tell whether F4 will be good or not by the trailer. Good cast though.

 

Hey, the Punisher wasn't too bad. It was meant to be a purely action movie

I haven't seen the F4 trailer yet, this is the first I've ever heard of it. Who's in it?

Personally, I think the F4 sucks. There are only 2 things cool about them. The first is Johnny Storm. And they better make Sue Richards a hottie! She was a hot mama (literally) in the comics

 

You can see the trailer here.

Here is the cast:
Ioan Gruffudd - Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
Michael Chiklis - Ben Grimm/The Thing
Jessica Alba - Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman
Chris Evans - Johnny Storm/The Human Torch
Julian McMahon - Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom

I believe Jessica Alba fits the bill as a hottie!

 

Hell yeah! but she's supposed to be the OLDER sister :/ Johnny Storm looks way older than her

I've never heard of any of the others aside from her and Julian Mc Mahon though :/

 

Michael Chiklis is from the TV show 'The Shield', Chris Evans was recently in the movie 'Cellular', and Ioan Gruffudd was Lancelot in the new King Arthur movie.

 

Ioan Gruffudd was also very good in the TV series 'Horatio Hornblower'

 

The Punisher wasn't bad? John Travolta was his usual lousy self and the scene where the hitman comes in and starts playing the song for the punisher just says it all. Utter ridiculous movie. It didn't even deliver as an action flick.

 

I am inclined to agree that The Punisher was dissapointing. Even more so since this was the second attempt at making this comic into a movie (1989's Punisher with Dolph Lundgren was also bad).

I always find myself looking forward to comic book movies but usually find myself dissappointed. I did like the two X-men movies, as well as Spiderman 1 and 2, but didn't like Daredevil or Hellboy. The Hulk was truly abysmal!

So, while I'm definitely looking forward to Fantastic Four (as well as Constantine), I don't have any real high hopes for it.

 

Thanks for the advice on "The Punisher". But I saw it anyway. When you are really prepared, it still is a miserable movie, I hope they will never make a sequel-

Edit:
And I really hope that FF is better than this !

 

Personally, I still think that the Dolph Lundgren version of the Punisher was much more entertaining. They were both really bad but at least Dolph's version was amusingly so while the new version was just forgettably dull and bland.

Getting back to the Fantastic Four, we really don't have much to go on so far except for the visual appearance of the film - and quite frankly I am thoroughly not impressed.

From what I saw in the trailer the special effects didn't look at all impressive to me - in fact they looked surprisingly fake given modern technology. The scenes with the Human Torch were particularly bad.

Also, you really don't want to get me started on the make-up/costume department - but I guess I will go there anyway .

What really has stood out in my mind from the trailer, set photos etc. is how horribly bad the Thing looks. The Thing does not look like a man with skin made out of rock - he looks like a man wearing a cheap latex rock suit. For the life of me I don't know why they didn't use CG ala Gollum or the Hulk instead of a cheap suit. Heck, if they did decide on using a rubber suit couldn't they have gone to Toho or someone else who knows how to design one that looks good?

 

Just look forward to Iron Man and Ghost Rider.

 

Ioan Gruffudd? How do you pronounce that? And is he the right stuff for Mr. Fantastic?
As for Jessica Alba. She is a hottie but I can't picture her as The Invisible Woman.

 

I'm looking forward to any comic movies that are coming out soon, ESPECIALLY the Ghost Rider movie, he's my all-time favourite comic character.

As for The Punisher, I expected something a bit camp and corny (and got that in spades) but I certainly wasn't expecting the rubbish that it was. Though I will say that I enjoyed it for what it was - a low-grade vehicle for some spectacular visual effects. The Russian was completely ridiculous, but seeing as this was based on a comic book, it was interesting to see how bad a comic looks when translated to the screen while completely keeping comic book-style action and events.

Iron Man I'm kinda dreading because last I heard Tom Cruise was signed on to play Tony Stark/Iron Man and he's way too short.

The Fantastic Four I'm really looking forward to because I'm a big fam of Julian McMahon after getting hooked on Nip/Tuck, of Michael Chiklis after his old series The Commish and the current The Shield, and Jessica Alba is always 'pleasant' to watch.

Anyone heard anything on The Black Panther with Wesly Snipes?

 

Nope, Tom isn't playing Iron Man. I read it somewhere that he read the script and didn't like it. You can't really go by actors. Who thought Tobey McGuire would pull off Spider Man?

 

What do you mean you can't picture her as Invisible Woman? Just imagine she's not there. Hehe, just kidding.

 

The script for F4 was leaked some time ago on the net and it is absolutely terrible! The bad script would be enough to insure another dreadful C2F adaption but add to this the horrible Thing costume and the casting of Jessica Alba as Sue Storm and you are drifting into 'Catwoman' territory.

Batman Begins looks to be VERY promising however. They are reinventing the franchise with a Year One-esque story. Christian Bale IS Batman and casting Gary Oldman as Gordon and Liam Neeson as Ducard, Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox, Ken Wantabne as Ras Al Gul...I don't want to say "can't miss" but it would be pretty hard to screw this one up.