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New International FANTASTIC FOUR Trailer Hits - It Sucks Less!
Hey folks, Harry here... The International Trailer doesn't do much other than have a bit of dialogue and much better music - and my overall feeling is... I like this one. This feels better. Still got a bad feeling, but I don't think it'll be that fantastic... but I'm hoping for it to kick all manners of ass. Here ya go...
20th Century Fox are proud to announce the internet release of the International Teaser Trailer, previously premiered on T4 last Sunday.
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MARVEL’S FIRST FAMILY OF COMIC SUPERHEROES TAKE THE WORLD BY STORM AS THE LONGEST RUNNING COMIC BOOK SERIES IN HISTORY COMES TO THE BIG SCREEN.
REED RICHARDS/ MR FANTASTIC, WHO CAN ELONGATE HIS BODY; SUSAN STORM/ INVISIBLE WOMAN, WHO NOT ONLY CAN BECOME INVISIBLE AT WILL BUT CAN RENDER OTHER OBJECTS INVISIBLE; JOHNNY STORM/ HUMAN TORCH, WHO CAN SHOOT FIRE FROM HIS FINGER TIPS AND BEND FLAME ; AND BEN GRIMM/ THE THING, A HIDEOUSLY MISSHAPEN MONSTER WITH SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, TOGETHER BATTLE THE EVIL DOCTOR DOOM.
Released: July 22
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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This film looks as good as I expected it to be. I'll be there to see it. Plus it looks a thousand times better than Hellboy ! Shit, there's two hours of my life I won't be getting back.
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Jessica Alba.......Thank you
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Ben Grimm still looks bad, Dr Doom is still screwed up, Sue Storm still looks like a pin up model, Reed's stretching effects could have been better and Johnny's torch effect looks no better than it did in the Corman movie. This movie should have been made with more time and a larger budget and with far FAR greater respect to the source material. If it makes a profit at box fine, but it won't be the powerhouse that the Spiderman movies are. I don't see that happening.
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Will Hasselhoff be making an appearance as Nick Fury: Agent of Shield? I think that he would be fitting for this production
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Come on... I was not at all pumped up about this flick until the first trailer and them BLAMO it looked like it might rule... but of course this trailer then comes out and ruins my dreams. It again looks like shit and the thing sounds like shit.
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Feb 18, 2005 3:49:50 AM CST
Didn't mind the trailer, not problem was The Thing sounded like
by tall_boy
Heh. Syndrome.
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Feb 18, 2005 3:56:55 AM CST
Yeah I don't know...I actually liked the domestic teaser better
by ribbons
At least this one doesn't have the goofy "1 will be bad, 4 will be fantastic" thing going on, but that dialogue better not be indicative of the rest of the movie (to be fair, The Thing's line isn't really that bad, but the delivery seems wrong).
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The older one was better. This one was heavy on the cheese.
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There was nothing to enthral me in this trailer. Just the same as the last one - nothing. I REALLY do see this film bringing the whole comic-book-to-movie roll to a stand-still. I have NOTHING against FF as a concept and used to read it when I was younger. Not an avid reader but even I can tell that theres a lot in this trailer that either shouldnt be there or doesnt make sense. Like a talkbacker said a while ago when the first trailer came out - why doesnt Reed just stretch his whole body under the door? All they seem to have done in this new trailer is take off the Perfect Circle tune (which they probably noticed had the line repeating "go back to sleep" which isnt a good message to send out) and throw in a few new shots.... and not very good ones at that. Sorry FF fans, i feel for you (I'm a Bats fan and I had to endure Batman & Robin) but I dont see this one being too great for you.
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Feb 18, 2005 4:15:35 AM CST
they should have gone with a different approach for a new traile
by sirbiatchreturns
because this one is pretty much the same as the last. It just doesn't help. Maybe they could have focused more on the dialogue and 'family' between characters, if it even exists in the movie. Since they're not really showing that, i'm getting a strong feeling that this movie will suck all round. The visuals are meh, nothing amazingly new or innovative. The truck smashing into the Thing is cool for a fleeting moment, as well as Sue deflecting Doom's attack. thats pretty much it.
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how can you have a trailer for the fantastic four movie without thing saying its clobberin time?
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The transmission sticks HAHAHAHA be still my aching sides.
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Ben Grimm sounds like the Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circusssssss. "It's... clobberin'... time! My... brain... 'urts!!!"
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But not here, in agreement, The Thing sounds like crap, and is it just me or is there a shot there where his hands just look ridiculously disproportionate?
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Can you feel it? That's the sensation of pure, raw, unadulterated, straight to DVD suckage. Its almost like being at the ocean and tasting the salty breeze. Mmmmmm.... almost as good as waking up in the morning and tasting metal.
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My name is Corky, can I borrow your car? ACK... every time I start looking forward to this movie I encounter a bit of stupidity that makes me want to gouge SirBiatch's eyes out.
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Feb 18, 2005 8:37:37 AM CST
Sucking is like pregnancy... it can't suck less; either it sucks
by thewoodman
...And there isn't a brand of detergent, in the Marvel Universe or in our own, that can cleanse the stench of suckage out of this mess. Also, regarding Ben's voice: in the godawful Hanna-Barbera cartoon from the 60s, the legendary Ted Cassidy ("Lurch" from the Addams Family T.V. show) did the voice of the Ever Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing. He basically did the Lurch voice, only a little more coherent and with a Noo Yawk accent. SAINT KIRBY HIMSELF (yeah, you heard me, True Believers... a Jewish saint! you got a problem with that?) said that's how he imagined Ben's voice sounding. Having it any other way just indicates that the filmmakers didn't do their homework. Not that that's breaking news or anything. See ya in Hell, Fox!
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Feb 18, 2005 9:20:11 AM CST
I liked the 1st one better. Maybe it was the music in the origin
by mr. profit
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You get the sense that in order to keep giving her screen time. The audience is allowed to see her, but as a clear faded image. It's kinda like what they did with Chevy Chase in memoirs, except you could fully see Chase.
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Fox has done it again, those crazy so-and-so's.
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...not a great trailer, but that does sound like the ever lovin' blue-eyed Thing.
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...have filled me with the same fire of desire that both Spiderman movie trailers did... or that the Batman Begins Superbowl spot did... or even that the Star Wars Episode II trailer did. But that doesn't mean the movie's automatically going to suck. If I can give George Lucy another opportunity to pull the football away before I can kick it with his Episode II, I can definitely shell out a few bucks to see this thing in its entirety before I procalim it shit. Oh... and Burl: doesn't just waking up in the morning make you want to poke out Biatch's eyes and piss in his ocular cavities?
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It reeks of being a Daredevil level of flick. The person who said in a prior talkbalk Lost in Space was right on, I think. Some things cool... others look like they might be weak, but hard to tell. A few good actors, a few not... Alba is filling in for Matt LeBlanc in this one. Her line at the dinner table sound like she is an audition class reading for a detergent commercial. I think the only people that are happy to see her in this movie are guys who think she is smokin' hot. She is, but I can buy maxim for that. Or have her be Johnny Storm's girlfriend instead of that hottie from Entertainment Tonight. On the other side, sure... Alba looks cool when the grits her teeth and fires a force blast. But Hayden Christensen looked pretty cool when he gritted his teeth and zipped across Tatooine on his speeder bike in the Episode II trailer. And we all know how that turned out. I think Chiklis sounds fine when he takes the car. I think The Thing's voice is one of those things where he is not "human" and everyone has some unique but vague idea in their head of what he should sound like. To suddenly have a concrete voice attached to him, no matter how it sounds, is going to be jarring. And any good FF fan's stomach is churning over Doc Doom having his metal exterior grow out of his skin from the cosmic storm. Egad! Some change is okay to make a movie compact. Fine, put him on the space ship. But how hard is it to have him horrifically burned and wear the armor to constantly cool his skin that will forever burn from the fire of the cosmic storm? Or have the armor be a device he is using to harness the power of the cosmic storm and it becomes fused to his body. So, many comic book style rationales, but they opted for Power Rangers.
Harry was dead on when he suggested this movie should be designed to look like (although it bombed) Down With Love. Capturing that early 60's world with a contemporary twist. Spider-man and Hulk and others are great to make in the now, but if there ever was a comic to make a ripe and pulpy period piece, it was FF. -
...have filled me with the same fire of desire that both Spiderman movie trailers did... or that the Batman Begins Superbowl spot did... or even that the Star Wars Episode II trailer did. But that doesn't mean the movie's automatically going to suck. If I can give George Lucy another opportunity to pull the football away before I can kick it with his Episode II, I can definitely shell out a few bucks to see this thing in its entirety before I procalim it shit. Oh... and Burl: doesn't just waking up in the morning make you want to poke out Biatch's eyes and piss in his ocular cavities?
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...made me repeat myself. I HATE having to repeat myself. It just irks me to no end when I have to say or type the same thing over and over again. It's so redundant.
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I rest my case. If this is the new and improved less suckage trailer for the international release..well there you go. And bite me Batman haters. Every trailer for that movie has just gotten better with each new one released. That movie is going to rock because they actually CARE about what they are doing. Plus, Patrick Bateman as Batman? Fucking Amercian Psycho in a cape baby...whoo hooo. "What do you think about Phil Collins as an artist Joker? I must say his earlier work is quite good."
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the line had me laughing. mainly the delivery. still looks like a shitty movie, but maybe it will be fun.
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I agree.... either something sucks, or not. Suckage is suckage, there are no degrees of suckage. In the words of the immortal Beavis and Butt-Head: "Like, the whole world is like divided between stuff that sucks and stuff that's cool." Anything having to do with this misguided FF project is firmly ensconced on the "Suck Side"!
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Feb 18, 2005 11:52:42 AM CST
There are rumors of a live-action Venture Bros. film, so don't g
by declan_swartz
http://larryhovis.net/venturecompound/episode007.htm
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Feb 18, 2005 11:54:53 AM CST
Isn't the Gregorian chant background music getting really old?
by cookylamoo
By all rights Carl Orff should more more famous than John Williams.
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Feb 18, 2005 11:57:21 AM CST
Chicklis was the one member of the cast that the nerds were happ
by barry egan
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They should have cast Bob "The Beast" Sapp the K1 fighter. He was in the running and is massive, bigger than the comic version of the Thing, but better build.
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The whole damn concept of the Four is that they are in fact a family of heroes, and a lot of their dialogue, even in Ultimate, is cheesy, goofy stuff. You expect them to be on fuckin' downers the whole while, a la Bats and the new Spidey?
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Nuff Said
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This movie could be a lot of fun if done right. I think the two joke lines in the trailer worked real well. If they balance that with a bad ass Dr. Doom who actually is a threat to someone. I didn't like the first Spider-man as much as I should of becaus I thought the Green Goblin was a stupid bad guy in the movie. Doc Ock was much better and the movie was better, the villian has a big part in how good a comic book movie is. So if its funny and there are some big fights between the 4 and Doom and I'll be happy
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My main concern is really the sound (or lack there of) when Thing does his thing. He's made of orange frickin' rock, yet when he moves to flip the old lady's car, he moves silently. That's a big problem.
I'm not sold on them passing on a CGI version of the Thing anyway. He should be frickin' huge (Hulk size), not Chilkis sized with rocks glued on.
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The people making this are more ensconced with making a profit than a cool FF movie. When you look at the best superhero movies, they all had someone familiar and caring behind them. Sam Raimi was a huge Spider-Man fan. Both those movies were great - from a fan and non-fan's perspective.
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Even if this movie does end up sucking the longest of hard ones (and it very well might), it doesn't mean you'll NEVER get a good FF movie. You'll just have to wait a few years until someone decides to remake it. And with the frequency of remakes in Hollywood ever increasing, there's a good chance this could be up against its own remake in the third week of its release.
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1) Thanks for remembering my rant comparing this to the "Lost in Space" movie a few articles back... that was some of my finest work. 2) Thanks for pointing out that this should have been a period piece set in the 60s. "The Incredibles" was set in the 60s (or at least in a vaguely 60s-like Silver Age), and that doesn't appear to have hurt it at the box office. I'm the biggest F.F. fan around, but let's face it, folks... this is kind of an inherently silly concept here. The guy calls himself "Mister Fantastic", his best friend is a talking pile of bright orange rocks, and they face off against bad guys with names like "Doctor Doom" and "Galactus". The worst possible way to handle the movie would be to present it dead-seriously and filled with "attitude"... so of course that's exactly what they did. A more light-hearted approach, set in the now distant past, would have freed them up to explore all sorts of ridiculous & implausible stuff that could've made this the most entertaining superhero franchise ever... but, no. See ya in Hell. Fox!
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Yep, I'm looking forward for this one.
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Is it a rule in every comic book movie to throw a car or stop it dead in its tracks? It's not interesting anymore.
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Hmm- I actually enjoyed the last trailer better. It was sleeker, faster, and just plain cooler. More action, less stupid dialouge, and call me crazy- but I actually preffered the music of the former.
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Is flattening out his hand all Mr. Fantastic does in this film? Oh, Elastigirl, where are you?
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Now with less suckage. All the hours of a real movie, and NONE of the quality! Also available with 50% more CHEESE.
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The trailer's kind of lame, but I get the sense that some of you are preparing to light cars on fire after watching it. It is what it is, and it might be a bad movie, but it's kind of hard to tell at this point (same goes for the people who seem to think it's going to garner effusive praise; if I were a betting man, I'd cast my lot with the pessimists). As for the 'Lost in Space' comparison being "right on," I'd have to say you're "dead wrong." Futuristic looking spacesuits and a futuristic looking spaceship that'll be in the movie for all of 10 minutes. Oh, and there's a family in it too. Yeah. That's a real prescient observation.
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Feb 18, 2005 9:38:51 PM CST
"Isn't the Gregorian chant background music getting really old?"
by voice o. reason
Agreed.
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"Isn't the Gregorian chant background music getting really old?"
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Umm, Invisible Woman.
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Sorry Harry but the original domestic one was a hell of a lot better even though there isn't a massive difference. First off APC's "Counting Bodies" was, by far, better music for the trailer. It didn't have the generic comic book movie feel with that music playing. While I do have my doubts about the movie since I was disappointed in the Hulk (Fantastic Four and The Hulk were my two favorite comics with Ghost Rider a close third) I have to say the domestic teaser was the better of the two shown.
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...that everyone working on this film knew it was a pile of crap from the beginning, they barely had a script, the production was rushed, the whole thing was a disaster from the word go. The studio just made them poo it out as fast as they could. Basically the studio geniuses think that superheroes are this year's "thing", and they have to get as many of these turds out as they can right now, before the fad dies down. Basically at this point it's next to impossible for a superhero movie to be any good (excepting Bats and Superman, which were in development for a long time). My theory is that the reason Spidey and X-Men were good is that they were developed at a time when nobody cared about superhero properties. Marvel was in chapter 11 and the rights could be had for a song. Therefore the executives pretty much left Singer and Raimi alone. Now that those films hit big, every superhero film is micromanaged to death and anyone who isn't already a proven commodity doesn't stand a chance of getting any kind of a creative vision out there. Sad, ain't it?
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Feb 19, 2005 1:38:01 AM CST
What the hell font is this? Futura? I can't even read what I jus
by negasonic
Sorry, guys, I hate the redesign. You fixed something that wasn't broke.
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Feb 19, 2005 4:16:48 AM CST
As much as i hate to pile on an already depressing subject....
by the founder
I gotta ssay that this film looks so d@mn mediocre. Nothing i've seen of this movie has moved my spirits. I hate to prejudge a movie before it's released, and i do think the costumes looks good, but the Thing just isn't up to snuff period. I don't guys about this one. I loved the F4 more then the Xmen, but it wouldn't surprise me if this fails.
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Ben's voice in the 60's cartoon was done by Paul Frees (narrator of "George of the Jungle"), not Ted Cassidy ("Lurch").
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...I was blaming the folks in charge. I'm sure the creative people are busting their fucking asses.
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No, Harry, it doesn't. Thanks for being a pal, but in the future please refrain from reviewing movie trailers while doped up on pain meds.
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Looks bad, which is sorta no surprise when the director is the guy who made Taxi.....
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Why is it that the international trailers for films look thousands of times better than the USA versions. They took out the whole 1 will be bad part which makes the film better, and actually introduces the characters for people that may not know who The Fantastic Four are. If they get rid of the organic metal with Doom, it would be a huge improvement, but I can live with than. And lumpy Thing disappointed me at first, but then I remembered that he was lumpy in the beginning. Was not until the 70's that he solidified a bit.
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Feb 19, 2005 12:42:28 PM CST
Kirby perfected The Thing's appearance by the Galactus Trilogy/T
by dog of mystery
... and I hope that if there's a sequel (with The Silver Surfer, naturally) the film-makers will evolve Ben's look more in this direction. But then The Thing's a very cartoony looking character, and a ultra-faithful translation would probably not work in live-action.
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Sure, it definitely won't be this year's Spider-man 2, but I could definitely enjoy this. Unless, of course, it turns out to be this year's Catwoman.
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Feb 19, 2005 3:14:52 PM CST
The Thing is the black hole at the centre of this movie sucking
by kiddae
There is nothing about this movie that looks all that bad apart from the Thing, who looks, moves and sounds like a spongey orange turd. Fuck you, Chiklis, you tiny bastard.
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The remix of Pet or Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm of the War Drums was better music than this. In the latest that's the same music that's in a million different trailers anyway.
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It looks so cheesy.
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'Nuff Said
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For cripes sakes...The Fantastic Four is supposed to be campy and cheese-ball. When they're all picking out names in the first comic book The Thing looks around and after some dweeb calls himself MR. FANTACSTIC and say, "well I guess you can just call me the Thing." WTF? That just screams the director of Taxi...ugh, I'm glad I didn't pay for THAT movie.
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God, this looks horrible. I'm afraid that this will be the movie that ends the good superhero movie run we've been having. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Feb 20, 2005 2:26:23 PM CST
F4 may turn out good, but FOX is Doing a poor job of displaying
by the founder
I truly hate bashing a movie based on a teaser, but nothing i've seen or heard about this project fills me with any hope that this movie will be good. I hope to god FOX makes me eat my words, but as of right now this movie looks like crap. If this movie is good, then FOX is doing a d@mn piss porr job of showing the goodness.
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He does sound like crap, although I dig the hell out of him flipping that car
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Feb 21, 2005 5:52:33 AM CST
I think Comic Movie Domination this Summer will belong to Warner
by lilium
I have to say, I am more of a traditionalist fan as opposed to a fan of the Ultimate Comic line. I would have loved to have seeb a retro version of the Fantastic Four done, but oh well. I find it quite odd that I am favoring Corman's movie what with the repulsive Jeweller and his Bob Fosse rejects gang and the overacting Dr. Doom who had a really nice looking costume I might add, as opposed top this Big Budget Marvel produced offering. As much as I like Michael Chiklis and thought he'd be great for Thing, whoever told him to deliver his lines like he has chronic constipation should be shot.
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DC might rule this year with its adaptations and carry that through to next year, while Marvel may go down the tubes, if this is as bad as predicted and X3 gets rushed through at the expense of quality.
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