Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Preezy** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:37 am

The trailers made this look alright but by all accounts it's utter gash. Shame, but then I think these characters just don't translate as well as you'd think onto the big screen. Even their cartoon series was the weakest of the Marvel ones.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Buffalo** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:21 pm

I would have put the director of Chronicle at the helm of a big budget superhero movie (as that film was quality) so it's a shame how it's turned out for him.

Preezy wrote:The trailers made this look alright but by all accounts it's utter gash. Shame, but then I think these characters just don't translate as well as you'd think onto the big screen. Even their cartoon series was the weakest of the Marvel ones.

Incredibles worked fine

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:28 pm

Quite a lot more details are leaking out about this now. I really hope we get a documentary about it one day in a similar vein to the Superman Lives one.

Fox cut the budget and 3 previously agreed action sequences during principal photography. They also strawberry floated around with some behind the scenes staff, like special effects/CGI managers without Tranks knowledge. That's supposedly why he trashed the house and didn't turn up to work.

And rumours are that Deadpool will be getting sequel treatment and take the slot allocated to Fantastic Four 2.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **HSH28** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:49 pm

Cosmo wrote:I don't know what's so hard for people to understand about Sue and Johnny being adoptive siblings in this movie. Then again why not just have them both be black (or white)? Is there any real reason for the adoption part?

Does anyone (normal) really have a hard time understanding it? Surely if you know the characters beforehand its a natural thing to ask about...what's the problem?

No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:Just went to see this and it was boring. I hadn't seen any previous Fantastic 4 films either but this was boring. I didn't like the actors either and their lines were so lame and annoying.
what a shame

The other films are absolutely terrible. Be hard to see how this film could be worse that Rise of the Silver Surfer even if it is boring.

So in it's opening weekend the film apparently got beaten by Mission Impossible which has been out a week.

UPDATED, Saturday, 11:56 PM: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation trumped the debut of Fox’s Fantastic Four — and in its second weekend, no less. Saturday moviegoers clearly put their money behind the Tom Cruise actioner rather than sit through a C- CinemaScore-rated film that even its director wouldn’t stand behind. Paramount’s franchise shot past F4 by about $3M to bring its estimated three-day cume to around $29M (or down just 48%) and good for the No. 1 spot. F4, by comparison is in the $26.5M to $27M range. Yep, MIRN had those all-important IMAX screens to help boost its box office gross.

A fantastic success.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **BID0** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 4:47 pm

$200 million more and they break even :slol:

Definitely doable. After all this was just the opening weekend, most people who saw the film probably hadn't even seen the reviews. Once that positive word of mouth gets around I predict next week's numbers to really skyrocket.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Godzilla** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:18 pm

Saw this today.

Very boring. Felt like it had been made before the age of super hero movies.

No action scenes apart from one short one at the end.

Doom is terrible, a huge waste.

Overall it deserves to do poorly, just a bad movie without the fun of the last two movies.

Not as good as Rise of the Silver Surfer. Which is saying something.

Website · PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Venom** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:00 pm

I haven't been to the cinema in ages so when I saw the trailer for this I thought it looked pretty good. It was going to be the movie to break my dry patch but (luckily) my plan changed. Quite surprised to see it's reviewing so bad by so many. Godjira, your thoughts that it's boring and has no action is a sin for a superhero movie and echoes Angry Joe's exasperated review. That it's worst than the other two makes it a straight to streaming film for me. It's a shame really because the trailer makes it look there's some meat to it.

Corazon de Leon

It sounds like this might struggle to break $100 million. If the rumours about Fox's meddling are true then I feel quite bad for Josh Trank.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Skippy** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 7:32 pm

I do to an extent but if the rumours are true about him then he's more in the wrong. Trying but failing to make your film more successful isn't as bad as treating numerous people like gooseberry fool, trashing people's property etc. We don't know the extent to which the two influenced each other either. Best thing to come out of all this is that a Star Wars film didn't end up between Trank and another studio

I was going to go and see this on Thursday or Friday, partially just to see how bad it was, but my cousin has outright begged me not to give any money to this film after she saw it.

Corazon de Leon wrote:It sounds like this might struggle to break $100 million. If the rumours about Fox's meddling are true then I feel quite bad for Josh Trank.

From what I've read in this thread, it seems there's a bit of blame on both sides.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/f ... fox-814764

Days before Fantastic Four opened, director Josh Trank sent an email to some members of the cast and crew to say he was proud of the film, which, he wrote, was "better than 99 percent of the comic-book movies ever made."

"I don't think so," responded one castmember.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Skippy** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:14 pm

Not a huge fan of how much some are people are loving the failure of this, but that is an excellent use of that gif :lol:

It's not just the failure, it's that the behind the scenes antics during filming sound mental.

I mean this:

There were worrying personal issues as well. As THR reported in May, Trank and his dogs allegedly caused more than $100,000 worth of damage to a rented house in Baton Rouge that he and his wife occupied while the film was shooting there. Sources say now that after landlord Martin Padial moved to evict Trank, photographs of the landlord's family that were in the house were defaced. Padial made a complaint to the local sheriff's department and filed a civil suit in Louisiana that is sealed. Padial's attorney, Michael Bienvenu, declined to comment on the matter. The sheriff's department says the case was "closed as a civil matter between landlord and tenant."

He trashes the house and defaces the guy's personal photos? It's fascinating.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **Skippy** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:32 pm

I'm certainly not disagreeing that this was an utter disaster, it looked like it from the off, I'm just not comfortable revelling in it.

While it is a shame that it's as shite as we all feared it would be, it just nurtures the hope that Marvel get it back and finally make a Doom worthy of the character.

PostRe: Fox's Fantastic Four Reboot by **FatDaz** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:04 am

Skippy wrote:I'm certainly not disagreeing that this was an utter disaster, it looked like it from the off, I'm just not comfortable revelling in it.

The worse this does the less likely they are to try again meaning eventually marvel will get the rights back and hopefully do it justice.

Doom v Avengers :wub:

Irene Demova wrote:
Preezy wrote:The trailers made this look alright but by all accounts it's utter gash. Shame, but then I think these characters just don't translate as well as you'd think onto the big screen. Even their cartoon series was the weakest of the Marvel ones.

Incredibles worked fine

The incredibles was definitely the best fantastic 4 film.

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