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So We Know What GALACTUS Will Look Like Now...
SPOILER ALERT !!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
... and my theory is this: Tom Rothman was once molested by a giant.
No, seriously. It all makes sense now. This is the guy who absolutely resisted any attempts to put the Sentinels in any of the X-MEN movies, who once famously said, “There won’t be any giant robots in any movie my studio makes.”
And now... well, now Fox has finally locked down the look of Galactus in the film that is, I’m now hearing from people on the picture, “a heartbreaker.” And not in the good way. More in the “hates superheroes and plays more like a parody than a real film” way.
Are you ready for this?
Wanted to let you know what Galactus is going to look like / be represented as in the FF2 sequel:
A storm cloud.
Yep.
That's it. That's the solution from the creatives.
(clears throat).....pretty lame.
Think Superman/Silver Surfer flying through clouds with Galactus / Jorel VO.
My source is in the eye of the storm.
I've written reviews for your site as MegaSwarm (Fountain, Tenacious D, Scanner Darkly)
I don’t want to hate this movie. I didn’t think the first one was the worst Marvel movie ever. I also didn’t think it was a particularly good film. It was just mediocre, with a few elements that sort of kind of worked a little bit. I want a Silver Surfer/Galactus movie to be cool.
But a storm cloud?
Really?
Mr. Rothman, please just tell your therapist about where the giant touched you, then get over it and stop raping these comic book properties in an effort to settle the score, okay?
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
A storm cloud.
Yep.
That's it. That's the solution from the creatives.
(clears throat).....pretty lame.
Think Superman/Silver Surfer flying through clouds with Galactus / Jorel VO.
My source is in the eye of the storm.
I've written reviews for your site as MegaSwarm (Fountain, Tenacious D, Scanner Darkly)
Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles
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Just.....wow.
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Fishbourne will be voicing the stormcloud. That's something, right? No... It's not. You're right.
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Is that the best they could come up with? Jesus Christ just leave Galactus out of it altogether if you are going to fuck it up this badly.
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It's 4:00 in the morning and I am not first on this story....
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just when I thought they'd get it right...
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There is little place called Europe..its 10am here.
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Y'know, like in ID4?*logs out*
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http://kungfurodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/galactus_head.jpg...........http://www.digital-cameras-help.com/clouds/cloud-5.jpg
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...for "normal" audiences. But a stormcloud is really lame. It's a cloud for fucks sake! A cloud isn't scary or menacing. It's a fucking cloud! I can see clouds when I look out of the window!
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Upon reading this, I now wish the real Galactus would show up. Fuck Rothman in the ass repeatedly, while the Surfer beats him around the face with his surfboard. This needs to happen.
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......forgot that little nugget of common sense...Europe...Touche, my friend, touche..
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...have a frowny face? That would be super.
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the only franchise that has been taken care of from day 1, Spider-Man.
Did you guys see these new spider-man 3 clips?
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with all the vitriol it needs. That's just fucking stupid!!!!! Even I, with my VERY limited knowledge of FF, knows that the very concept of Galacticus is not best served with a bit of inclement space weather!!! You know what this sounds like. Rothman was watching The Neverending Story in a moment of madness where he thought watching a good movie instead shitting out bad ones might be a good idea. Saw the Nothing and thought wow having Galacticus look like like but sound like Fishbourne will really be something special.... what a fucking dick-head!!!!!
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they can't help it. Their hands are so big that even a friendly pat on the back covers inappropriate areas. Anyway, "FF2 The Rise of the Cloud" doesn't have the same ring to it. Can't wait for the action figure though.
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What kinda douchebag takes one of the more bad ass villians in comic history and turns him into a frickin weather patern. I know by some miracle X3 wasn't a complete clusterfuck despite Rothman's mishandling and sadly that just makes him think he was right. Despite the medicore first Fantastic Four film the trailers for the sequel have gotten me intrested, now this turd drops in the punchbowl pinched from Rothman's ass. Even that would have made a better Glactus then a cloud.
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I was wishing that they would just take Galactus off of the comic pages and throw him in the movie as is. But after thinking about it maybe it's not such a bad idea after all. I could never imagine that this "Fantastic Four" could ever stand up in any way to a planet eating giant such as Galactus.
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didn't Ioan Gruffudd leak something like this in an interview that was posted on this site? a couple of months back I think...
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Apr 18, 2007 4:09:59 AM CDT
BTW Spartacus Hughs, that's a cool friggin Galactus pic
by thenorthlander
but tinyurl.com okidokes?
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Okay. The end of this film is supposed to be his arrival, but not his appearance. So maybe the big freakin storm cloud is the intergalactic version of his Escalade? See? It makes sense. IT MAKES TOTAL FUCKING SENSE! Yeah, this hokey. Good going Tom. You dicked away more of Rupert's money. Sir, you are no Sir Howard Stringer.
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Ultimate gah-lak-tus, anyone? Now that'd be terrifying. But if it's a storm cloud like, "just a bunch of fucking black clouds" stormcloud, then yes, this is terrible. I wanna see some photos, because, c'mon, I don't think anyone's gonna take a giant purple man seriously.
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why cover a potentially awesome CG money shots of an awesome CG character, in an awesome CG cloud. Why do it?
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that Europe is a continent, not a country, which also spans several time zones... so it's not actually 10am in Europe... but it is at least 10am-ish in the UK (snarf snarf) [pushing spectacles up nose]. Anyways...! A cloud, huh?! Well fuck me. Genius.
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...'cos clouds are scary.
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If they were not going to use the classic look...
I hope it doesn't end like this:
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It's from Marvel Alliance. They got it right. He could've worked on film. What's tinyurl?
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in a videogame based on a movie ever.
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Never really cared too much about F4 thankfully but it seems they've killed this franchise off too, for a studio all about making money they don't seem to know how to do it very well.
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I thought that in a moment of spleen venting I was being harsh. But no, Rothman really is a cock sucker of the very highest calibre. This is a good attribute for a street corner pro not for the boss of a major Hollywood studio. Do you remember the days when Fox had men of vision in charge who took a chance and defended it. I think we got Star Wars by doing that. Now they give us fucking rain clouds for our bad guys... wankers!!
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is a Jessica Alba nude scene.
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Why cover a potentially awesome CG money shots of an awesome CG character, in an awesome CG cloud?
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Seriously why dont you just cut galactus's dick off already? HOW MENACING!!! OOOOOOOOOH HOW SCARY!!! A PLAMSA RAINBOW COLORED RAINCLOUD WITH LIGHTENING BARING DOWN ON EARTH!! SOOOOOOOOOO FUCKING SCARY! HAHAHAHAHAH. I bet it'll look exactly the same as that fucking abomination energy rainbow in Stark Trek: Generations' In other words space barf. THEY COULD HAVE ATLEAST GONE WITH THE FUCKING ULTIMATE GALACTUS! FUCK YOU FOX AND FUCK YOU ROTHMAN YOU CUNTBAGS! FORGET TRANSFORMERS!!!! THIS TRUMPS THEM ALL IN DISGRACE.
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Except perhaps this one. A fucking rain cloud... I'm sorry but I can't get over this.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gf_49_cover.png
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I'm no massive old school FF fan and Galactus always looked a little silly to me. But Ultimate Galactus is awesome. I think it was an extremly good idea of how to make Galctus more beleivable if you will(I know it's foolish to talk about believeability in a comic movie but you know) I thought it worked well and for some thing like the movie it would of worked wonders. Could you imagine seeing all those things stretched out across space. It would of been awesome. now we get a cloud....oh well.
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The most expensive obviously being making galactus as he is in the comics, next least expensive would be making ultimate galactus, after that the next least expensive would be painting galactus's face on a bed pan tying it to a stick and waving it in front of the camera, then the cheapest obviously being a giant mother fucking raincloud.
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look right below the talkback input box and you'll find a link there with an explaination. If you write down urls in the TB they will be split up, just look at your own post back there.
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Only one superhero can save the day this time - Weather Man!
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its definatly gonna look like the fire clouds from ID4,all godlike and such.never liked the F4 pansies but after the transformers debacle its comforting to know nobodys getting the movie they want....
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Seriously, with this story how can anyone deny it?
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the threat, the impending doom. People are just going to look out of their windows and think "Shit, it's going to rain today."
Not "holly fuck, we're all going to die" Galacticus is the eater of worlds for fuck sake. I'd love to have been in the room when they came up with this. Just to see how they justify it and talk them selves into thinking they could make a cloud cool. -
...............flames , clouds , wtf hollywood!!!!!
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I can just see the Silver Surfer at the end of this film doing a singing in the rain routine with a nasty big rain cloud above him?
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here's an idea, running parallel with the whole "nothing" concept from The Neverending Story, which although unoriginal, sort of relates to the Ultimates version of Galcatus, who was actually made up of a giant swarm. What if this cloud started forming at the climax of the movie, destorying and disinigrating everything in it's path, and slowly started to reveal the popular form of Galctus that we're all familiar with? Galactus is, after all, nothing but the projected fear of destruction that the world he's destroying percieves. There's a way that they could still pay homage to idea of Galctus, making him frightening as all hell, and still base him in some sort of realistic fashion, instead of having him approach Earth in his big purple helemt. We all know that looks great in the comics, but could they really pull off that image on film? I don't know...I can't stand Tom Rothman, but with all of the imagery i've seen so far on this flick, I can't imagine that they'd make Galactus a puny little rain cloud that we get to deal with every day. No...I have a feeling there's a lot more to this description than what everyone's first impression seems to be.
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Every cloud has a Silver Surfer. Wait, WTF!! Oh that is just lame, hopefully the cloud will at least be purple. *crosses fingers*
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WTF!!!
How 'tarded is this? I was just getting to the point of giving this movie a chance after the turd that was the 1st one... and they ruin the little bit of coolness that the Silver Surfer has brought to the table! -
Just do a big pair of robot feet with the rest of him hidden by clouds.
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And the rape of the FF continues. This FF bears little resemblance to the FF we know and love. An 'ethnic' angle in there I can understand. Alicia being black. Sue Storm being 'a little ambiguous'. After all, time has moved on. I could even look past the so-so Ben Grimm suit. But Doom was made into a buttfaced turd in the first movie, and now they're making galactus a space-going fart cloud... Unforgivable. You tools can sit there and rip one out of Singer all you want, but at least he respects and loves the source material. Tim Story really couldn't give a shit.
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Pffftt. With what? Cloud power?
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The "Nothing" in The Never Ending Story was the absence of something - like if you have a forrest, and there's a lake in the forrest that "The Nothing" takes, that means you would only have a forrest. That's because people's imagination is starting to disapear in the world. "A giant swarm" would be "A Something", a raincloud or a thunderstorm would be "a something", rojected fear of destruction would also be "a something". it's not at all like "The Nothing" in The Never Ending Story.
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Per Ioan Gruffudd, Mr. Fantastic in the films, "His presence is felt in the movie. He doesn't physically appear."
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...without the bread...and an extra side of shit. Lowest common denominator demogs, shill film making! bring on Spidey 3, Hellboy II and the Dark Knight...that's how a graph franchaise should be treated.
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well, i hated the first FF and i won't even waste my time seeing this piece of crap. IMO they should just stop making comic books into movies all together if this is what they are going to do to them. Also someone (who knows what they are doing) should do The Maxx
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So........................... the cloud is going to eat the planet?
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Hopefully FF2 is the last FF film ever made. 100% sure it will suck as bad as FF1, so I don't care if they make Galactus a hovering used condom. This movie is an abortion anyway.
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Jessica Harper, you heard me. Now get to it. I can't believe she's married to such a no-nothing shit for brains like Rothman. I will buy the most expensive bottle of champagne and have the biggest celebration when that no-talent fuck is no longer the head of 20th Century Fox. He's ruined far too many movies, from pre-production to, well hell, the entire damn process. Witness the cinematic atrocity that was "X-Men: The Last Stand". How Rothman's not on trial in The Hague along with Bush is beyond me.
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I meant "know-nothing shit for brains". Proofreading. I should really start doing that more often.
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Fuck Tom Rothamn in his fat franchise wrecking ass.
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It's hard out there for him. He's tired of second-rate parts in anti-smoking campaigns and making guest appearances in fire prevention commercials. We all know he can act - did you see how he conveyed anger when he killed Ekko? That my friends, is some seriously good stuff. Just by reading the above posts, you all obviously have a bias against anything smoke (especially "black" smoke - ineteresting that noone makes an issue about white smoke in wizard movies), so the cards are already stacked against him. Why don't we all just give him a chance and see what he can do? I am disappointed that that Fishburne had to do the voiceovers, but if done right, it could work.
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By seeding him with silver iodide.
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Would disagree that he is raping anyone. If you look at all the things he produces. Newspapers, films and tv shows. they are all dumb. He doesnt care about quality, which is why nobody reads the news of the world. Murdoch understands very well that the punter in the street has heard of the fantastic four and if you give people ff movie they will go thats cool, he also knows that jo public really doesnt give a crap about what galacticus looks like or the design of FF car. Murdoch knows that is a movie. Murdoch has been this for the past 50 years. Giving people what they knowing that people arent interested in the fine details and that Fox news is such a success.
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Excuse my ignorance.
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Apr 18, 2007 5:52:25 AM CDT
Won't someone say something of nipples on storm clouds?
by jackpumpkinhead
Or "storm clouds on Optimus"?
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Moriarty, you nappy headed ho faggot, why didn't you tell us Witchman did the music for Cigarette Burns?
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Now I won't becuase I know Ekko gets killed...Damn...spoiler warnings dude;-)
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Apr 18, 2007 5:58:13 AM CDT
P.S. Can you see the Cat in the Hat's face in Galactus?
by bannedontherun
You know what's sad? I watch Fairly Oddparents with the kids a lot, and they're always ripping off the classic purple Galactus design. Like, exactly. Apparently because the creators are actual, you know, comic fans, not studio execs?
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I'm just had a vision of the climactic battle...the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing on his back in the desert wresting with a giant cloud in near total darkness. "TAKE IT ALL!"
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The Surfer is a herald, foreshadowing the ARRIVAL of Galactus. Quite possible that the "Storm Cloud" is just how they communicate, and they're saving him for #3. You haven't seen it yet, quit complaining.
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As a non comic book reader, isnt a humaniod many times larger than a planet just a plain silly idea that never stood a chance outside the pages of a comic book? I mean, come on! The Jewish Superhero Menora Man is much more beliveable :)
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think that something that inane would make a satisfying ending to a -- oh, yeah. (This from someone who really likes the first 4/5ths of Lee's Hulk.)
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I don't like hearing news in little bits like this and then judging it.... But this is not good! Certainly not "Fantastic." Why don't they just call it "The Asstastic Four?" Maybe if this makes money they will remake the Hulk as a Tree.
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I really miss George the 7th Chicken.
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Now I am officially uninterested in FF2. Suck it Story.
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You do not taint the legend of Galactus. This is truly mind-BOTTLING. Seriously, I am so fed up with these hacks who think they can just thoughtlessly change decades of comic lore so drastically. I will not see this if this is true. My absence from this film will DESTROY the box office totals. Galactus was in fact the coolest character in the FF franchise. To turn him into a cloud? Crom, grant me this one request. Grant me...REVENGE.
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I was actually referring to it [the galactus cloud] resembling "the nothing" in the visual sense, then again, stupid me for thinking someone wouldn't over-analyze my comparison and miss my whole point completely. but thanks for the re-education on 80's fantasy cinema. next time i have a question about xanadu or time bandits, i'll be sure to let you know. ...douche.
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That would be gotta eat worthy.
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If I can pull this off... they can do Galactus...
http://www.theblackdiamondeffect.com/Galactus.mov
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I don't remember that being one of the cloud classifications. Nimbus, stratus, cumulus...Galactus? My hopes for this movie were just crushed. I defend you no more Fantastic Four.
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Don't fear people, Tim Story can save this movie! With his knack for characterisation and flare for action I'm sure.....hell, who do I think i'm kidding. Still kind of looking forward to this though, mainly 'cause I don't really like comics but like comic-book movies (even the old Punisher and Captain America films, the latter being the biggest comic-turd ever commited to celluloid). I assume Galctus wasn't a cloud in the source material?
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Galactus in that camp outfit with the stupid helmet looked crap anyway. A big stormy cloud makes him more god-like and frightening to me. Sometimes things need to be altered so they less gay, tbh.
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and safe....
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I will watch this movie, but I will do so by downloading it illegally. Yes, I want to see Ben Grimm in action, but I refuse to pay one damn cent to watch the rest of this piece of shit. Rothman, fuck you. You will NOT get any of my hard earned money.
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Laurence Fishburne will descen from the cloud in a purple trenchcoat. All Hail The Eater of Worlds. Nope, got nothing.
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For godsake get a grip you lot. Jeez I've never heard such a pile of ranting idiots. You've not seen the CG treatment yet (and yes a cloud can look menacing and forboding). Why give you all the money shot if there's gonna be a 3rd film with I suspect a reveal of Galactus proper in whatever form they decide to present him. Someone say he's a cloud and you lot go ape shit, for f*cks sake take a chill pill and calm down. tsk.
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Phantom Menaces don't work in even the most successful franchises. All this pussyspeak about "I don't know if Galactus will translate..." is such a copout justification for mediocre filmmaking. If you were to ask anyone in 1987 if good Batman movie would ever get made they would have said the exact same defeatist shit. No one ever thought Wolverine's hair and mutton chops would translate, or Blade for that matter (who is a thousand times cooler on film than he EVER was in the comics) saying that it can't be done is an even more cowardly way of saying "I can do it." So that's when you man up, excuse yourself from the project and make room for someone with the wherewithal and respect for the source material to make it happen. That being said, I hope this is a mix up and that a stormcloud is not the final version of Galactus. I want this to be good and say that having absolute hatred for pretty much everything in the first film except how Mr.Fantastic and The Human Torch were handled. When The Thing and Doctor Doom don't even look as good as the ones in the Roger Corman version...maybe you've picked the wrong filmmaker.
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The first things that came to mind when I read this were Mellvar and his mother (cloud with glasses) from the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"...
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Who cares?
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A huge guy dressed in purple and pink spandex with a pink metal helmet? Oooooohh sounds terifying.
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A guy with a bigass head wearing a dress....but after reading the comics, and watching cartoons and such...he grew on me. KEEP HIM REAL DOG!
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That... uh, ...fantastic trailer... will bring in quite a number opening weekend. (It fooled me.) But man, if this movie sucks as much (or even more) than the first one, watch attendance drop like a rock. (I was going to say, "...drop like Galactus." But in this case, it wouldn't make a good example.) Awe... puffy clouds. "Look, I see an elephant." "I see... a sinking ship." "I see... a Fantastic Four movie." "Hey, ...that's no cloud. Somebody farted."
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Who is this spy anyway? It's not that I think the people behind this movie have any real sense about what they're making, but what if this is not accurate? A lot os spleen is being released over a rumor...oh, man, listen to me? That's what this place is all about...not just AICN, but this country.
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http://www.glennalicious.org/archives/raincloud.JPG
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I knew they'd go the Fred Hoyle route on this one. Oh well, at least we got the comment "Tom Rothman was molested by a giant" out of it -- which is one of the funniest things I've read here all week.
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Did you do that movie? its cool... ahhh... its a shame when fans do things in the right way when the people with the money (and the rights) wont do it... by the way... did you see Ryan vs. Dorkman 2? waaaay more cool than the stupid fights Luckass gave us in the prequels...
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...Christopher Reeve gives more heart in 3 seconds than two hours of this trash.
Same for Spiderman! Copying the SUPERMAN franchise completely.
I- Discovers Powers
II- Does not want powers
III- Turns Bad.
Spideman IV will feature Peter Parker attempting to disarm WMD's!
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Too bad that the Fantastic Four aren't facing a TRANSFORMERS worthy Galactus. So tell me, ...how much are you liking the looks of the TRANSFORMERS flick now?
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Did anyone seriously think this movie would be any good? It's from the same people that made the first piece of shit.
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How exactly? Oh yes, big and dark - like a raincloud. Ooooh! "FEAR MY LIGHT DRIZZLE!"
The only time the effect works is if the cloud is disguising something uncomprehensible, like in ID4 or Hellboy. But seeing as the uncomprehensible IS the Cloud, this will fall flat on it's face. This is just a terrible decision all the way round - just think of the lost sale on the action figure for one. $10 for a figure, sell 100k globally and you've just lost $1m my friend. -
I see the geek is on the other foot now!
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that didn't last long.
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Just kidding. The TINO phrase is gayer than gay too.
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this movie will suck ballz
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.....qualifies as news how? This has been know for quite some time. I think I actually read the interview on here where the writer or director said Galactus was a "voice from the sky" and will not be shown in a physical form.
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I swear, the Sentinels and apocalypse is all i've been waiting for in the X-men movies. The rest has been just filler with the 3rd being a MAJOR let down.
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Spartacus Hughs - You made me laugh, those were great comparisons, Galactus Head vs. cloud.. Great stuff!So from the looks of things.. I'm not the only one who'll be disapointed when this film opens up... All this "Marvel Unlimited" started these changes. They played with origin stories that we knew since the 50's instead of just refreshing them... They changed up a bunch of shit... I read that Galactus is a freaking Spaceship in the Unlimited Comics?See that what happens when mindless idiots start changing things around in the comics. It give Producers of the movies help with reconfiguring everything around...First it's a man, eater of planets, then it a spaceship, now a freaking cloud..I say, the next person who comes across Rothman need to kick him in the balls! 'Nuff said...
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THis is crap.
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I seriously want to cry, Too bad this is just as hillarious though.
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... wow first time I see that we could all see Micheal Bay could "save" this movie?? Fuuuuckk....Now that's weird...
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Because rain clouds block out the sun.
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Apr 18, 2007 7:41:35 AM CDT
this will be better than seeing a giant purple freak
by jeanluc dickhard
in a fez hat ..... i rather have the cloud ...
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Winnie the Pooh, The Nothing, and The Smoke Monster from Lost, and they are pretty upset and calling their lawyers.
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that there are group of people who dont wont comic books to be made into feature films. Both within the entertainment industry and without. So they pass a part of a movie, whether it be script, still, or whatever on to harry and say this is the what such and such is going to like. the anti-comic book movie talkbackers then pick it and run and say this movie is going to suck. based on what the say-so of entirely nameless individual who possibly hates the idea of comic book movies anyway.
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...that blows Galactus away from Earth. Will the promo posters for Galactus look like that episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE and ask "Who is...the Drizzle?"
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Giant touched you, m'kay???
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ARGHH! That sounds like such a suit solution/suggestion to do that. I'm usually not a hater but I've got a keg of hateraide next to me right now. Guess I should've expected it. I thought the first one was terrible, so I guess it just stands to reason that the second would be bigger & better suckage. Just had hopes w/the surfer/trailer, and that they had looked at the last one w/an unobjective eye & fixed some of the many problems. BTW, I even would've accepted any type of carbon based updated alien than the big guy w/the acid era purple suit. Oh well. Some of these types movies will suck, and some of them will not. I'm just finally glad I got to the point where I won't plop down my hard earned $ for anything now just cause it's a comic movie. I drew the line before Ghost Rider & from what I've heard I'm glad I did. On the other side of the coin though...I would go see somethin really cool like 300 or (hopefully) Spidey3 multiple times. It's gotten to the point where I'd rather see somethin 3-4 times that blew me away & I want to absorb again than support any more of these turds. Demand more & quit seein everything they release dammit.
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This movie puts the lotion in the basket
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...he can so do this part!
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What he did to the Dark Phoenix saga makes me want to beat him over the head with a wiffle bat. Seriously, anyone got a wiffle bat?
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or, if the FF can't defeat Galactus, they can always call Halle Berry over to disperse the cloud.
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Have the surfer fly into the cloud and stop. The audience will see the image of Marlon Brando appear just like in Superman. The only difference is that he will be outlined in a purple helmet (computer graphics) and his voice will be dubbed over by Fishbourne.
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Hey Gus Van Rant, at least with the tampon, you know he'd have an attitude!A cloud?
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He gets a costume and everything. He'll be like [KABOOM! CRASH! KLA-CHOOM!]
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At least Bay was in the ballpark, shit he's practically the same team compared to Cloudy Disposition Galactus.
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does the comic version look a little nutty in the real world? sure. but damnit, make it badass. stop trying to play to the super realism, especially with such a corny movie to begin with. just include a badass giant instead of pissing purple cloud.
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That is all.
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oh yeah he'll be making sand explosions every which way possible in the sands of time video game movie. hahah wow sounds interesting though
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To save tons of dough they will probably use that 14 inch Galactus that came out a few years ago. Just stand it up and shake it a little to make it look like it is moving. Hell, I should be making this picture.
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Get Spock in the thruster suit, baby!
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of The Drizzle and Mr. Mister.
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YOU FUCKING BUSINESS EXECUTIVES HAVE NOOO MERIT MAKING CREATIVE DESIGNS!!! You are all tools. I can picture the excuse now..."no no no A giant wouldnt work. We have to appeal to the broaaaad audience. Movies are a business and having a giant, well, people wouldnt buy it!" CAN I REMIND YOU MUTHA FUCKER THAT THIS IS THE AUDIENCE WHO BOUGHT A TICKET TO SEE ROCK MAN AND A CHICK THAT TURNS INVISIBLE AND SOME DUDE THAT CAN STRECTCH HIS DICK A QUARTER MILE!!! Christ sake i am pissed. Fuming right now. All day I sit at work doing creative advertisments and have fucking asshole idiot NON CREATIVE business suits changing shit that they have no merit to change. This is the same shit going on here. Shove the movie up your ass you tools!
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Douche in the Universe. Thanks for sinking yet another movie you ham fisted bag of shit stuffed in an expensive suit. Go juggle grenades...
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Apr 18, 2007 8:11:18 AM CDT
you know how we can prevent this from happening again?
by potsmokinalien
BY NOT SEEING THIS MOVIE, EVEN IF WE LOVE THE FANTASTIC 4. seriously people, 2 years ago this is the conversation i had a hundred times: me: "that new fantastic 4 movie sure looks like shit, huh." friend: "yeah, it sure does, but i think i'll see it anyway just to see what they do with it." ???? i am as confused as you all are. so let's prevent this one from making an depressingly unbelievable shitload and follow our instincts this time. buy ten scratch tickets instead or something.. your chances of winning with this movie are zero
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Trekkies Rejoice
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well, we are talking about a sequel from the genuises who made the first FF film. where's the surprise?
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You do kno wthat Galactus has NO PHYSICAL FORM IN PARTICULAR. He merely appears in the form that the inhabitants of siad planet may comprehend. I mean you "comic fans" have actually read a fucking comic book or the Marvel Handbook right?
According to wikipedia(even the dummies there got it):
Although Galactus is usually depicted in humanoid form, each sentient being perceives him as having a form resembling its own.
Hence, humans see Galactus as an enormous armor-clad humanoid, while an amoeba-like species, for example, would perceive Galactus as a gigantic amoeba-like entity.
As Galan, Galactus was indeed a humanoid, but his true current form is unknown. He has adopted the appearance of a roughly humanoid energy being on at least three occasions. Whether or not this is his true form has yet to be revealed.
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Relax, Get out of your mom's basement. Attempt to talk to a female and WAIT TIL YOU SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE!
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A big fucking cloud. That'll be $9.00 (Not including popcorn or drinks, please.)
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seriously, people, get over the Jack Kirby worship. Galactus, he looks goofy. Give them a chance. it's not like they're retroactively destroying all your FF comics.
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hehe
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Sorry, that was retarded. I'm so ashamed.
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Will the storm cloud have laser beams at least?
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or at least superhero comic books. so not everyone will know the FF universe. The die hard FF Fans know it backwards of course and it doesnt matter who directed this film, the die hard fans are going to hate it anyway. So the next thing is then if your an effects guy how to come up a planet eating monster. Do you copy the idea from Star trek Voyager. There was a planet eating monster in that and the alien was caught between it and The borg. so rather than the alien being assimilated he was devoured by the monster. or Marvel could sever thier ties with Fox and team up with dreamworks but die hard fans wouldnt be happy about that. nothing seemingly satisfies them. except hollywood not making comic book movies. But i enjoy comic book movies so i dont know.
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You know, I have ONE simple request...and that is to have a clowd with frickin' LASER BEAMS shooting out of it! Now, evidently my Cycloptic colleague informs me...
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seriously, it's a joke of a character. At leadt thats what i think when i see him.
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harry, wurm, Mori...anybody...use the Power AICosmic and get Fox to show us Galactus...or we start a boycott right here, right now. Fuck the Ultimate Nullifier (which I always thought was dumb) refrain from feeding Galactus the Cosmic Greenback and watch how fast he disappears! Geeks or not, the studios NEED to know that we're not going to take this shit anymore. USE the power of the internet. Someone start a boycott FF website! NOW!
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Or are they messing up like they did with "Eragon"? Draft dodging my butt. I hope they don't do something stupid and make the Mole Men the villains of the third one...
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fair enough, but not reading comics is no reason to cheat the sheeple out of something that could be awesome.
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but if galactus is a cloud...that's gonna suck. i think we can all agree on that. i mean i know when they made juggernaut a mutant in s&m garb instead of man with mystical powers and a giant penis shaped helmet even that was ok with me cuz i understood it needed to be based on what we had seen in the previous movies. however they did not turn juggernaut into an inanimate object. i mean, come on, if he's gonna be galactus he needs to be galactus. if not just say silver surfer came to warn earth that "a storm's a brewin'".
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Mighty Mom & Dyno Dad? ^_^
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I have never read a FF4 comic and I hate, with a passion, the firet movie. On the other hand, I read Spider-Man religiously as a kid and absolutely love those movies. I think it really just depends on the quality of the movie.
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Total and complete shit sandwich.
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"First movie", not "Firet movie".
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I can't say that ive ever read the comics but i know how much things suck when they are done wrong. I recently got hold of the hellblazer comic thats the film was based on, though it was accurate to a point it missed about a bit to much and its only a 30 page comic lol
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Although Galactus is usually depicted in humanoid form, each sentient being perceives him as having a form resembling its own.
Hence, humans see Galactus as an enormous armor-clad humanoid, while an amoeba-like species, for example, would perceive Galactus as a gigantic amoeba-like entity.
As Galan, Galactus was indeed a humanoid, but his true current form is unknown. He has adopted the appearance of a roughly humanoid energy being on at least three occasions. Whether or not this is his true form has yet to be revealed.
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...would be way cooler than a cloud.
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FFINO!!!
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...Ultimate gah-lak-tus thing.
I mean come on people...we knew that they wouldnt do a manInSuit thing with galactus but a fucking cloud ? Hey perhaps they colour the cloud purple..weee ...like...a gay Lost smokezilla or something.
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1.) A nude scene w/ the delectable Miss Alba will not save this film. I mean, she had a couple in the FIRST film and that didn't help (granted, she was invisible during them).
2.) HOPE that they mean full-on "Day After Tomorrow" storm and not little Winnie-The-Pooh fooling the bees cloud.
3.) HOPE that any cloud at all is just the opener for something cooler in the 3rd movie. It does not HAVE to be the jolly purple giant (but I'd prefer it). I mean, despite being a stinker, the first movie did well with the family audience, apprently. That gives you some latitude to shoot for entertaining over 'bad-ass'.
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...with anything creative on their own, so why not leave him out of the entire story instead of putting a fucking CLOUD in the movie.
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They couldn't even come up with anything better then a storm cloud?
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No fucking way Kurt Russell is laughing at this! Not cool!
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But Galactus is, and always has been, an utterly ridiculous character. Sometimes our nostalgia blinds us from seeing things as they are rather than seeing them through those rose colored glasses. But to anyone not completely enamored with Fantastic Four, Galactus is just about the most retarded villain in all of comicdom.
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Why do they have to WRECK everything from my childhood. I can just see the suits siting around saying, "Hey, you know what, a think a storm cloud could work here people, we could really nail that storm cloud demo".
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To get the Galactus takes any form excerpt...now I would presume that the movie is set on earht therefore Galactus should take a fuckin human form no?? Unless we are expecting an army of talkbacking clouds to complain that they have been underrepresented in the movies..are you all cloudists??
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"we don't have enough money to pay someone to come up with a good design on galactus...what's that? ...just make him a giant cloud you say??? hmm..." "we don't have enough money to make an awesome venom, let's make him a giant pissed off black magic marker." "surfer? a giant gum wrapper. beast? hows about a blue popsicle
that fell on the ground and now has some hair on it?" this is genius. keep up the good work guys. the public and the fanboys love it. -
Suddenly Peter Griffin's precautions don't seem so silly. "Look at 'em up there. Plotting." "Tonight, we strike. I'm serious!" "Me too!"
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The first one was a cheesy, cheap looking movie that was kinda corny. It sounds like its par for the course.
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Story, iirc, let this out awhile ago. I know he never promised a giant space humanoid. Galactus would have ate the budget, pun intended. And the only reason Surfer is in this, is because Fox had been paying on separate character rights for years now and wanted some type of return to end the contract. Arad's going to move the FF to his Paramount deal after the sequel blows out. Then like Hulk, he'll reboot. Only thing that can change this is if FFRSS does big numbers.
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The guys at Accuweather think the cloudy Galactus rocks...and is the high point of the film. They gave it FOUR Smiley Suns!
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For all you people who don't like the way they keep screwing up your movies and destroying your favorites. For all the people who keep complaining about their decisions. DON'T GO SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE!!!!! They'll tell you that you can't judge the movie until you see it. You'll say OK and pay the ten bucks. You'll walk out whining calling it a festering pile of shit. They'll count they're money. The bank receipts will ring up near 100 million. The director will be considered an A- List director. ( a la Brett Ratner who pointed a camera at Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan) Rothman will be considered an astute businessman and remain in his current position. If you are tired of shitty Hollywood movies that with bad acting, directing, stories etc. DON'T GO SEE THEM. Just Don't!
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lame as it gets.
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would look silly seems to have fogotten that the FF consist of a cigar smoking, orange rock man, a man made of fire who shouts "Flame On!" a rubberman and invisable girl. Oh, and their fighting a Silver Stoner from space!
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SMACKFU is also right. He is kinda ridiculous
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If you're embarrased by the fact that you're reading comics. Name one character or situation in a superhero book that ISN'T "ridiculous." The point is that (if this rumor is true) the dunderheads behind FF don't trust the source material enough to actually, you know, make the effort to get the audience to believe. Apparently Richard Donner is the only Filmaker with enough testosterone for that. Instead, they'll just pull the "nimbus" aspect of the story and cull the actual Galactus and try to make you believe it's better this way. But it's not. Why even try to do the Galactus story if you're not going to have freaking Galactus appear? You seem to have trusted that the Silver Surfer could work, why is Galactus so different? Of course, maybe this report is wrong. But considering the way they castrated Dr. Doom, I'm inclined to believe it's true. Why, oh why are these people embarrassed by the subject matter? It's a freaking COMIC BOOK MOVIE! Embrace the mythology dummies! It's fun! It's fantasy! Don't run away from that! Give us a 100 ft. tall Humanoid Galactic world-eater with a freaky technology suit! Have him plop down in the middle of NYC and start to create an apocolypse machine out of the dust in the air! If you sell it - REALLY SELL IT - without Johnny Storm making a tounge-in-cheek "wink wink" in-joke to the audience every two seconds, it might just work! Get some balls! Do it! Ah, what am I saying - nthis franchise is beyond redemption anyways - do whatever the hell you want.
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It leaves the options wide open for FFIII...I'm hoping Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt can sign on to help stormchase.
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and judging by his past record he does, then why the hell does he keep on producing these movies? Oh, and bee152 I agree completely. I will never in a million years pay to see this movie. I don't download very often (three times in my lifetime, one of them being FF1) but you might as well download this one. To paraphrase ATHF:MFFT, they've got your money, don't care if you like the movie, and are now going to spend it on drugs.
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Same storm cloud...just six times stupider.
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And I don't even know what a galactus is...
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...because it's obvious that a cloud villain can have only one possible name - Cumulus - and so I still won't know what a galactus is.
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...was responsible for the shitfest that was X-Men: The Last Stand? This Rothman guy is a complete fuck-up. A fucking cloud? HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP LIKE THAT? How hard is it to film some kind of teaser shit with glimpses of a purple armored hand, or helmet or something? Fucking douchebag, Rothman. The first FF film took the creative shortcut on Doom's character, and now this second FF film fucks up Galactus? Aah, fuck you...
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I'd be embarrassed to put him in a film as well. But the rain cloud is pretty uninspired.
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This is pure ego that they screw around with the FF so much... these films are very close to becoming the Batman with nipples batsuit bullshit!!
oh and don't forget, it doesn't take much to bring Galactus to life:
http://www.theblackdiamondeffect.com/Galactus.mov
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Why is Galactus in the movie at all? Galactus was cool, people remember him so he's in FF2. It's only Fuck-head Rothman who wants him to be a cloud. Plus Pie man, by your own explanation Galactus should be humanoid.
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Funny.
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How come AICN hasn't reported that Edward Norton has been cast as Bruce Branner?
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So I LOVE comic books. I LOVE movies. I believe I have a sense of what makes each good. And I know when its done well. That said the laast FF movie was HORRIBLE. A non blonde Johnny, and a latex short and fat Thing are just the tip of the iceberg. Bad choices. Galsctus would just be silly as a Human. Really think about it. I think this movie could be better than the first, I also dont think thats saying much. But the surfer seems to be actually a nice take on that character. Maybe the "cloud" wont totally suck. Maybe. It will still be better than Transformers, which is sad. At least they were trying to make the Thing look right.
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Brainiac to be played by Steven Hawking in Superman Returns Again.
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We can overthrow the production and do this film right for fuck's sake! Who wants to help me?
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they already did. Did you also know that Galactus will be a cloud?
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Apr 18, 2007 9:42:29 AM CDT
It didn't take long to "remake" Hulk; they can redo FF
by carmillavondoom
*crosses fingers*
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Galactus' look changes with each species. Humans perceive him as Human in his purple get-up. Skrulls perceive him as a Skrull in some other get up. Kree as something else. Shi'ar as something else.
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It's probably just a set-up for the next movie anyway, when we get to see Galactus in full glory. I picture this raincloud like this huuuuge Independance Day mothership stormcloud. That's threatening. Then BENG, to be continued.
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I'm so disappointed.
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Must have missed it. I didn't hate FF as most of you. But FF2 will certainly be a rental. Will he be a cumulus or cirrus?
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If I were the art director on this movie and Tim Story came up to me and said, "we really don't think a giant man in purple armor is going to work...we have this idea about an enveloping cloud that we want to explore, but we still want to pay some sort of homage to the character," I do this: Imagine an enormous black cloud (tinted purple of course) rolling ominously over the landscape. it moves fairly low to the ground and spans up as far as you can see. as it moves, death comes to any form of life it touches, slowly turning the world to dust. as it crawls over the horizon, the shape of Galactus's famous horned helmet is implied in the shadows of the cloud, visible only during quick flashes of lightning. Imagery similar to the cover of Galactus: Extinction - http://www.brokenfrontier.com/ektron-content/gl1p1_0109.JPG
Yeah, it'd be cool to see Galactus on screen, but we've all seen the translation efforts, so I'm willing to give someone's interpretation of the character a fighting chance. After all, how many of us screamed for Marvel's head when the Ultimates version of Galactus was portrayed as a swarming plague of drones. I don't know...I'm just not as bothered by this as obviously some people are here. I think it's an oppurtunity to realize the character in a completely terrifying way, and at the same time paying some sort of homage to the strong visual elements we all recognize Galactus for. I'm keeping an open mind, but I think it might be kind of cool. -
If Galactus's design in the comics was completely unadaptable I could see them going this route. Or if the FF movies were going for something less ... comic-booky overall. But it's unneccesary. As someone already posted (http://tinyurl.com/23pmss) - the original design with some minor tweaking could look pretty damn good.
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in the Fog? He was after Adrienne's tits me thinks....
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Should have been a financial bust too. The mouth-breathing masses have awful taste.
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Tears really, just like mine.
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Sorry, I had to.
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It would be great because he be all like "BSHHHH! CHO-THOOM! *makes laser gun sounds*"
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Tim Story has always been running as a director before he can walk in even attempting this saga. I sense a 'grab-the-bucks-before-it-collapses-strategy at work here behind the scenes as this will surely finish the franchise off for a few years I suspect before the stink dies down on this one. A big cloud with Fishburne as the 'voice of God' is pretty thin, to be said, but just taking a look at those Alex Ross renderings of the big G prove that perhaps with a bit of thought, care and vision the purple helmet version could be pulled off in a cinematic context. But then we're talking Tim Story here, so yeah we're screwed. Shrewdly Galactus could ideally lead into a very cool Negative Zone plot here for a raucous, out-of-control third film but then god knows what he'd do to Annihilus....can you imagine? The big green and purple feller cast as fecal leakage or something. Anyway I don't know whay I'm posting this because as we all know it's all fucked without the presence of Kirsten Dunst anyway....
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...wasn't there a rumour going that the design of Galactus wasn't finalised by Story until about February....doesn't that send out signals??
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That really sucks and talk about a cop out.
Of all the ways you could present Galactus,(Kirby's being best)and they choose this?
What is it with the production of this franchise? They get some things dead on and others are completely wrong.
Rothman is a scurge on the Comic Book Film industry.
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is that this movie will make a lot of money even though it blows worse than the first one and will reinforce the studios belief that they know best was is good for us all.
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We've seen a cosmic storm cloud menace the Earth before. Gee, I wonder where.
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Galactus + Jewfro = money
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C'mon people. I know its all the rage these days to give shitty comic book films a pass but the first one was absolutely abhorable. I refused to see it in theatres and when I finally did catch it on cable I couldnt get all the way through it. Just fucking terrible and what they did to Doom was inexcusable. Hell even the Johnny Storm that people claim they got so right was just painfully annoying with all his extreme sports bullshit and grating cockiness. Chris Evans played him closer to a used car salesman than anything else. So with the same exact production team on board how the fuck did anyone think this was going to turn out well? Yeah the early Silver Surfer stuff was neat but the character is so simplistic in design it would have been impossible for them to fuck it up. If you had faitht hat any of the nuance of Marvel's galactic half of storylines would show up in a film by Tim Story then you were just being naive.
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this can't be true... :( galactus is SUCH a fun "comic booky" cosmic bad guy... and now he is a storm cloud? how lame! how can avi or stan lee let this happen? seriously?! i mean, you'll go "comic booky" enough to have a fucking silver man on a surf board and a rock man, but you WONT have a giant space man planet eater? wtf? how dumb. this movie will bomb. even comic book fans wont come to see this turd.
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Or perhaps there's a high chance of suckage coming from 20th Century Fox.
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...except the villains. That's a huge achilles heel, because most folks agree a good story is almost always only as good as its villain.With Doom they got the look right but the character all wrong. Seems like they took the reverse approach to Galactus.I didn't want to see a giant in purple and blue Kirby armor, necessarily, but some sort of giant being with a huge spaceship would've been cool. Maybe he's hiding somewhere inside the cloud? Can we at least pretend that?
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Sounds like another wasted opportunity. What in the hell is this studio's problem? Half-assing comic book properties is not going to make them Spider Man money, that's for damn sure. Also- funny post there Moriarty, had me crackin' up.
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Verne Troyer.
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I for one nominate Fat Joe for the Storm Cloud Galactus.
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"Doom was made into a buttfaced turd now they're making galactus a space-going fart cloud"
Cracked me up for some reason. I also agree that if we give Singer another chance his next Superman movie will kick ten kinds of ass,especialy if he uses the "alien threat" element he keeps refering to. Sorry Tim, this is your last shot with me,and if I find out you had anything to do with that abortion of a film Beauty Shop,the one with Alicia Silverstone doing the absolute worst southern accent in history, I will personaly hire Galactus to eat your family while you watch. -
dressed in purple eating planets? In this day and age? Does it really matter since FF42 is going to suck monkey balls anyway?
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Take THAT, poorly drawn 1960s comic book source material!!! And THIS, poorly animated 1980s television cartoon material!!! YOUR MEMORIES MEAN NOTHING TO HOLLYWOOD!!! HAR HAR HAR!!! (Michael Bay STILL fucking lost.)
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I think what gets me most is that they've changed it to a cloud. As some one has said above, of all the ways they could of interpreted Galactus they chose to go with a cloud. It's so hard to comprehend why they thought it'd be a good idea. It may change though, if they out cry is bad enough...but then you get the fear of a half assed, no time to spare creation ala Mummy returns with the Rock as bad CGI scorpion guy and then you'd be even more angry.
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In the "climactic final battle", the Not So Fantastic Four could have to LIFT AN ISLAND! Now THAT is "creative genius"....
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Seriously. Making Galactus a giant cloud would be even worse than making Jor-El a flying green bagel, which is what Marlon Brando wanted to do in Superman. As a fat man, Brando was clearly obsessed with bagels. What's your excuse Rothman, EH???????????
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Stop the madness!!!!!
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... Hey, the release date for FF2 is 2 months away and we haven't even started on the CGI for Galactus yet. Damn! Oh! I know... Just use that digital cloud footage we used as background for the Fantasticar scenes. Put it on a loop and we'll just get someone with a distinctive voice to do VO's. Samuel L. Jackson! Huh? Not available? Oh well... Laurence Fishburne, then... (sigh) ... I guessss.....
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Sam Raimi had gone on record as being *ahem* Anti-Venom, back in the day. However, word around the campfire is that he made the compramise and was allowed to use his (potentially goofy) Sandman ideas. Give a little get a little. Make the suits money AND the movie you want.
It doesn't sound like the principal 'mover & shakers' on the FF movies have that strength of conviction. Just the desire to do as the check signers say.
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would look so frakking lame. Seriously. An ominous cloud, HIDING GALACTUS, is a preety good way to END THE FILM. Then, in FF3, Galactus emerges from the cloud as..... what? I just hope to God that this isn't an attempt by Hollywood to voice their fears of global warming.
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they should do Galactus like SNL ended all the Bill Brasky skits. Just a loud, overpoweringly deep voince and the shadow of a huge man. "I'M GALACTUS. LET'S GET SOME BEERS! I'M BUYING!!!"
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If they took the same approach they did with Unicron in the Transformers film (not Bay's aborted shitfest). They hide much of him in shadow, use a deep booming voice like Wells and kick the base up to a degree that stops your heart in the theater. With the Surfer in frame to such an immense being, it would visually fucking rock, if done right. Or Tom "I fucked Last Stand in the ass" Rothman could simply make Galactus a clou....oh, never mind...
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TIM ROTHMAN SUCKS IN A BIG GALACTIC WAY!
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If I were the art director on this movie and Tim Story came up to me and said, "we really don't think a giant man in purple armor is going to work...we have this idea about an enveloping cloud that we want to explore, but we still want to pay some sort of homage to the character," I do this: Kick them in the balls, then fire them!
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I hope they change their minds as well. The sooner the better.
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the point of a film buff with no real connection to FF as a comic, Galactus as a giant purple robot is fucking laughable. I'd rather a stormcloud I think, sorry to say.
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and occasionally you saw a hand or arm or something reach out.
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Like you say he's not any particular shape anyway til the senient forms see him and determine his form. Besides this film ISN'T ABOUT GALACTUS anyway for christ sake. Its about Silver Surfer! I assume the coming dark cloud is just Galactus on route to earth, probably not seen til the very end as a setup for the third film! So why don't you guys get a grip and stop whining about a character who's not even featured in this f*cking film really, tsk.
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Sure, a giant guy in a suit would look silly. But there's a million other ways to do an ominous world-eater from outer space. It's just that none of them are as cost-effective a purple cloud.
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Murdoch we are talking about here. Quality is not a word that you find in his dictionary. Cheap yes! quality, no! He is big into choice, but quality, no!
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He's been outed!
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WTF?! even the ultimate galactus would have been decent, but this??????
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...about the movie, because it will suck. But I did collect FF comics for a few years back in the 80s. I know that it's easier to play off Galactus as a stormcloud than a giant purple man. But when anyone who knows Galactus at all pictures Galactus in his mind, they will think of the giant purple man. Not a storm cloud. Very few people know or give a rat's ass that some obscure "Ultimate" title revisited the character as cloud, or a collective. Now, if the storm cloud were the Fart of Galactus, then the giant purple man himself arrives, cool. Otherwise, see ya at Spidey 3
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why the hell didnt they give this frachise to Roland Emmerich. Sure Id4 was dumb and patriotic but the effects were great and the scene where the space ship appears from behind a cloud was amazing. I know day after tomorrow was boring but it looked fantastic. Here is someone who knows how to make a summer spectacle and knock it out of the park. Even the patriot looked fab.
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one cannot have Surfer in his first appearance on Earth without Galactus. Him being his herald and all...unless you want to totally disregard the comics and what the Surfer's occupation is. I think Galactus should be a rabbit...with big fangs.
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Dr. Über von Doom is defeated (by a brain collapse caused by the unbearable amount of 'Storm' analogies throught the movie up to that point) and the Four get Silver Surfer's his magical mcguffin board back. Only that SS's unable to fight, still recovering from the brutal anal rape Jim Cameron was granted by court to perform on him in the T2's plagiarism law suit. So, Mr. Fantastic jumps on the board, but since he can't fly on it, The Thing tosses him and the board like a giant motherfucking spear against the Galactus McCloud. We hear a lot of poorly engineered sound effects, than a giant purple head salvaged from some Power Rangers dumpster falls from the cloud. There's like 2 more hours of shitty film after that. Fin.
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As far as I can tell no-one has seen the effects (hell they probably haven't been done yet). How can you get upset about a cloud, it could be anything. I give up on you guys. Come back when you've all grown up. :)
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Mary Jane Rothman smoked and then said "Dude, I have an awesome idea." I'll keep the talkback short because Rothman does not deserve my wisdom.
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Why can't they just stick to the source material?
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His ass has confirmed it!
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hmmm...and the effects aren't done yet...that's encouraging. If the cloud serves as hiding what really is Galactus, that's a different story. However, if it's a cloud, and that's it...very weak.
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Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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http://tinyurl.com/2wvd8m
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nooga nooch
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put this crapfest of a movie into context, I am including this Bristol Stool Chart as a public service.
http://tinyurl.com/25wtok
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For putting water in my basement from that Nor'easter!
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well i was sooo looking foward to two legends of the marvel universe after that crap 1st ff film. now the've changed galactus to a cloud(wtf!!!!!!????).galactus is the devourer of whole worlds not a shower cloud.i will not see this movie.lets hope they leave the surfer on the pages of comics after this.
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some moments where they get it right...and others....
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The earth.
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you are automatically a 5 yr old...I thought we established this DatoMan413?
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Yes, sausage shaped, but lumpy. You know, a healthy brown turd with corpuscles. SO SAYETH GALACTUS! Hey, if it's a storm cloud or collective entity, shouldn't it be called Galacti? Certainly not as cool, but a storm cloud is not as cool as a giant purple man, either. SPIDEY 3!
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Actually, they'll put flames in the coulds so there you go a Optimus Galactus... BTW, hwo the hell are they going to market this as a toys?Sell cigartees to kids and in big letter on the box post "Make your own Galactus!"
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was so campy to begin with, why not go all the way and have a giant purple man? That'd be friggin'awesome! What, they think having a cloud will help retain the story's credibility? Hello! It's a comic book movie about a flying fire man and an orange rock guy. Give us the purple giant!
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Apr 18, 2007 11:58:56 AM CDT
Said it before say it again = TOA (Turd On Arrivel)
by allpowerfulwizardofoz
Fuck FF2. The 1st one was shit this one will be shit.
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back in the 80s? It was about an alien invasion of lizard people disguised as amicable humans. Anyway, when the aliens first arrived, earthlings were aghast at the sight of the huge ships in the horizon--an idea borrowed by ID4 ten years ago. Point is, that's how Galactus, the Giant Purple One, ought to look. Huge and looming, and at some point in the movie Surfer will toss a comical aside about, "that's as small as he can make himself. Just wait until he's aroused."
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Maybe they thought Galactus was the Sun Eater by mistake. Either that or they spent all the effects money on the Surfer.
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I am not trying to be rude, but X3 made more money than Superman Returns. I understand that both were mediocre movies, but when people are ensuring that these movies make the studios money, than why would they stop producing mediocre movies? I am going to pass on FF2. Hollywood needs to work hard to get my cash.
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Sounds about right to me. A fucking storm cloud?!? Are you kidding me?!? Bags of shit, this is going to be retarded.
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This is serioulsy one of the most asinine things that I've heard. Why change Galactus? WHY? I'm so disappointed in this.
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Apr 18, 2007 12:09:55 PM CDT
Maybe if it was a big Purple Cloud that was shapedlike
by timbenzedrine
a person in a big vegas/conquistador outfit, it could work. He could still be huge and menacing, but more etheral in presence, like Mufasa's ghost in the Lion King.
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and he was joking.
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Harry's sources has proven to if not anything else be right about a lot of shyt coming out of FOX.
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I was pretty sure it was F4, with Ghost Rider coming in a close 2nd. Unless we are counting Captain America and Man-Thing?
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Are you serious a storm cloud!!!!! I was hella looking forward to this movie and now I could care less. Thanks Marvel and Tim Story for ruining one of the best franchises they had.
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You know whenever nonsense like this pops up the argument always rolls back to previus movies that 'got it right'.I dont get it.People always bring up Batman Begins,Sin City,The Spider-Mans.It all boils down to ONE SIMPLE THING.It doesnt take much to 'get it right'IT DOES take a lot of work to fuck it up..You have to go out of your way to fuck it up.Doing the right thing is easy,in fact most of the time we all do the right thing by not doing anything at all.It takes a lot of effort to do wrong ,or bad.Just ask a convicted felon.Story needs to be chased into the woods by torchlight and pitchfork.
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Why exactly does there ALWAYS have to be some douche who says: "You haven't SEEN IT YET, so you CAN'T say ANYTHING" on a website BASED on rumor and speculation? I mean, how fucking LAME do you have to be to try to "police" speculation on Ain't It Cool News?
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Rothman was obviously sexually abused by a giant robot...
If he wasn't he fucking should be, any giant robot rapists out there?
He has no fucking imagination how can you not like giant robots, he should get a job that suits his ability...
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...will be portrayed as a giant rainbow!
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I am resoundingly disappointed.
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I'm just so done with all this shit. I'm NOT a hater, but I'm just fed up with the studios fucking this shit up. I will not go to the theatre, I will not buy the dvd. Transformers looks like utter shit. For the people who say you know you'll be there opening day - fuck you. I'm just so tired of all the bad news. I am looking foward to Spider Man 3, and I loved 300, but I am no longer supporting this shit that is so obviously fucking up these properties. I'm done.
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You can't be cirrus!
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I'm frightened already.
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How about YOU let OTHERS have theirs, without whining like a little girl with a skinned-knee? People don't like the STUPID idea of a "cloud". Deal with it.
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These bad movies are going to be made as long as you give money to filmmakers.
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After the completely botched Doom in I, they are now ruining one of the most visually cool characters in the Marvel U!!!! Idiots. No, he doesn't have to look like the Alex Ross gimp in the purple costume, but use some FREAKIN' creativity! Get the scale - that's the whole point. No one will feel tangibly threated by a giant nebula, give me a break.
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...as he holds the key to destroying Galactus: the ability to disperse clouds by mere concentration (amplified by use of a cloudbuster.)
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films? If they want to make a boring film about "real life", that's fine because it's no stretch. But SUPERHEROES? Someone please get a clue next time and hire someone with imagination.
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Blasphemy !!!
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I will admit, but I'd have loved them to incorporate the helmet somehow. It's a superhero film about imagination and exploration - who wants realism? I want to see a giant cosmic alien coldly survey the Earth and then say "I hunger." and start the destruction. Galactus is interesting because he is standing right there an he is ignoring everyone, he doesn't care, you have to do something CRAZY to get his attention. How are you going to do that with a cloud? My guess is he will be a non-character.
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....and realized that they had spent too much on explosions during the process of making the film, and didn't have any money left over to render a CGI Galactus. So they had to settle for a stupid fucking STORM CLOUD. DURRRRR.
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i hope the human torch makes a fart joke about galactus
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What, it makes as much sense as CumuloGalactus...First, Doctor Doom becomes an Americanized metrosexual corporate guy and now Galactus is the stand-in for the smoke monster from LOST.
DAMN YOU, MICHAEL BAY...ER, TIM STORY!!!
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Or is that just wishful thinking on my part? I'll stick to the Italian version from the 80's TYVM.
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This is a sad state of affairs but just wait for what they have planned:
The Inhumans will be played by the reformed Village People
Dragon Man will be a dude in a used Barney the dinosaur suit
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It's not a regular cloud. It's not going to block the sun and rain on you for goodness sake. As far as I know and as much as I've looked into it they're basing it more on the Ultimate version, which was a swarm of small robotic drones. It's a cloud of robots. But, even then, it's a horrible idea because the character is so iconic.
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metrosexual is so much more REALISTIC than a Latvian dictator. In a Fantastic Four movie. Yeah.
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A giant dude would be frickin scary I think. STupid studios
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Giant robots don't appeal to a large audience?! Someone should alert Michael Bay!
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That just plain sucks.
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This discussion on whether Galactus should be a cloud or not needs to be conducted in an adult manner! ;)
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DatoMan413:
The web-shooters were NOT Hollywood. They were Peter David's Spider-Man 2099 which not a single persongave him credit for.
Kal Elvis:
Being one of those said "douches", I feel that if I'm on a site that's based on speculation, I can speculate that most of the whining bitches that say fuck this movie will be first in line on opening day. They will also be in here talking about how it wasn't that bad. Seen it with X3 seen it with FF1. Most of you are walking punch lines. -
Seriously, the Bay ass kissing must stop on AICN. He's raping the classic TF designs way worse than making something a cloud. At least FF fans can pretend Galactus is in the cloud, what the fuck are TF fans supposed to do when they see Prime covered in flames or Megatron looking like something made in shop class by the blind kid?
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There's still plenty of love to go around. I can't have spent the whole day checking this talback motivated by hate......can I?
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When that house got destroyed?
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cuing the Jimi Hendrix guitar riff beckoning the rival of Galactus? Come on everybody it's sing-a-long time.
Purple Haze, what hell is that? Something coming, and it sure is fat. Paid my money but I don't know why! 'Scuse me while I Kiss This Guy. (cut to the the Torch/Surfer Brokeback scene) durr nurr nurr. -
filmmaker that announces early on their approach to any superhero or fantasy film is "realism"?
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...a swarm of those little metal sensor balls Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton send up the wazoo of tornadoes in "Twister?" Boy, I sure did like Helen's breastseses in that.
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No offense, Harry. I get a little gas sometimes, too. Just ask my son. He pulls my finger.
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It's like the guy who wanted Kevin Smith to write a Supes flick with no red s, no cape, and no tights.
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I got it! Galactus cigarettes for kids! Kids light up and blow smoke over their Surfer figure and speak Galactus' mighty words "Go my *cough* herald and de-*cough cough*-destroy those *cough hack* who would stand against me..." And then kids all over could say that the movie and toys were truly so bad it gave them cancer. Sweet!
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No, seriously.
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...the will use particle effects to create the screaming face of a giant Galactus a la The Mummy.
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work in a movie because he's a huge pink dude, or whatever, are the same who would say dr manhattan wouldn't work in the watchmen movie because he's a huge blue dude. with a huge blue dick. What is it with modern movie makers that they have the tools to make really awesomely weird stuff, but won't? It's like CGI is limiting effects instead of motivating them. Now everyone is afraid it won't look real enough, so they chicken out on doing really weird effects stuff. Fuck realism, I say. I would love to see Terry Gilliam take on a movie like this because he would probably make a gigant pink guy appear above new york. He has the balls to do it. Imagine a Jodorowsky's Fantastic Four. At least that would be interesting. This isn't even that. This is a FF movie, FFs sake. It's supposed to be weird like that, pink dude included. When the filmmaker believes in something, and the movie takes it seriously without giving a shit, then the audience will usually believe it too. That's all it takes : selfconfidence, and confidence in the material that you are basing your movie on. Sadly Tim Story, nor Fox give a damn about the FF, nor the audience. They don't really have any confidence in the source material beyond dressing a bunch of idiots in blue suits and making them fight a silver idiot. We have yet to see a true Fantastic Four movie. I say ignore this tripe, go see something else. You deserve better.
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For when the hunger comes back to haunt you.
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Because, honestly, that's all I really care about now. *sigh* A fucking cloud. Begin the weepening.
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No studio is that stupid. This must be false info which was leaked. Hasbro can't make toys of storm clouds.
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but not anymore. I am officially on the hater's train, which makes me sad. A FUCKING STORMCLOUD. What is this, fucking Zardoz?
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http://tinyurl.com/2qjt4s
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He could have been the giant anus from Evolution.
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Remember the God effects in that film? Wasn't he a face in a cloud. It's okay though because Transformers was made to sell toys, and Fantastic Four comics were made to sell ad space for X-Ray specs and Charles Atlas crap.
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...i mean it worked for Optimus..didnt it ?
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IIRF wasn't the way-back original idea of Galactus to have the F4 brawl with God himself? I could imagine 2 hours of psuedo-religious eschatological prophecy and hoodoo omens coming from the Silver Surger. And then, in the last 5 minutes, when the F4 fail to stop his hyjinx a cosmic power cloud rolls in. And after all, doesn't God live in the clouds anyway?
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For future reference, when you are tempted to write "it had to be said" coupled with an overused TB phrase, remember this:No, it didn't have to be said.
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If I Recall Fatly? Anway, God can look like any old damn thing, as long he's a fucking giant, in skeery purple/scarlet armor and somehow references the helmet. I'd settle for ram's horns instead of tuning forks even. Just so long as G puts the fear of gawd in me.
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Fuck.
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Instead of Sybok we have Silver Surfer... instead of the Enterprise crew we have the Fantastic Foul, at the end they meet a terrible conceptualized and executed special effect that try to pass for a god-like alien... the difference being that the FF2 cloud is gonna suck way more than that ol' man bathed in light of Trek V... oh, and that Shatner is a way more able director than Story... no kidding!
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Well at least we finally figured out the mystery on Lost. After Galactus is defeated, he retires to a mysterious island in the Pacific and occasionally uproots trees and harasses castaways.
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...and there is hope yet
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WHEN HE MADE THIS DECISION there are 2 chances:
1.He ran out of buget and a cloud was the cheapest easy way out
2.He wanted to express the complexity of the universe and the future of an entity beyond any comprehension and to express all the equations needed to express chaos he made the best decision of using metanano particles expressed by the most amorphous form of matter... smoke
The same applies to a single guy who lives alone and finds the milk outside the fridge when he comes back from work
1.He forgot to put it back in the fridge in the morning
2.A thief managed to get into his apartment the thief was hungry and felt that he wanted some cereal when he was about to pour some frootloops and add some milk the vision of those wonderful colors put an end to his 6 year depression and decided, in an act of gratefulness to life, that he would never steal again and ran off in ahurry and forgot put the milk in place...
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... Then what the hell do you call a short, fat guy in an obvious rubber suit with an obvious zipper-flap in the back? I don't know what I'd call it, but Rothman and that hack Tim Story call it "the Thing"!
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unlike a certain Transformer in a Bay movie I know of this summer....
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...eating planets like apples would have been SO much better. Oh, wait. No it woudln't. It would look RETARDED. Fucking comic dorks.
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Set in Greenwich during the beatnik period. Starring Daniel Day Lewis as Dr. Strange.
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"Yes, becuase a giant man standing in space literally..."
Well if you read the concepts about Galactus it changes form depending on what race sees it...and it is NOT about making every dork happy, really it is about respecting the fan base by improving on the concepts already known, not alienating the audience...if you find this "too dork" then you may want to check space.com they have better posts for people like you, leave this one, we do not deserve you SG7 -
I say we bombard Tim Storys myspace with complaints about making Galactus a cloud. Let him know our feelings and that we will boycott the movie if Galactus in fact turns out to be a cloud. Messages...Posts...whatever it takes so he knows that we are pissed. Let the revolution begin!
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upon the original. It was the usual boring sci-fi BS, the dumbing down of the original concept to supposedly make it more real. The original Galactus was much more interesting.
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..and I'm not even a die-hard FF comic book fan.I do, however, think that "This movie puts the lotion in the basket" (from Fecal Debris) may be the funniest new tag line I've ever read on this site.
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The teaser just got our hopes up for nothing.
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but with this being aint it OLD news, they probably wont report it for a few more days.
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Maybe they could get the dude who does the voice for Meatwad on ATHF.That would seal the deal for me.
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It's a well known fact that planets make one kind of bloaty and pooty. You get that no so fresh feeling. Having read the script, I can tell you that Galactus has sent the Surfer to Earth not to find him something to eat but to raid our supply of Bean-O. Galactus plans to consume the planet Chiliburgerus 7 in the Cheezcut System of the Airbizkit Nebula. Apparently, it's a spicy delight of taste sensations, but the last time the Big G had anything like that, he let one fly too near a binary sun and the backwind singed his elaborately costumed ass.MONDO SPOILER ALERT!The Watcher, played by a bald, CGI enlarged Andy Richter, directs the Four to ship Galactus the world supply of Pop Rocks instead. This is a major product placement for the Pop Rocks corporation, btw.
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if this is true...I am not surprised...didn't they make Galactus something weird in the ulitimate version? I haven't read it...they could so easily make a giant alien entity in a mehcanized suit look awesome if they want to. I had a lot of hope for this movie, the Silver Surfer looks spot on, maybe, maybe, maybe if the cloud is just what is bringing Galactus TO the earth... or some kind of portal of some kind...maybe that could work...but if they could make a fucking silver surfing dude and a dude in a rock suit, why couldn't they make a dude in a purple power rangers suit?? C'mon!!
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Huh? Come on people. Freakin Giants! Freakin Awesome Space God Giants! Where are your balls? Huh? Where are they?!?
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will be Nathan Lane
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of Galactus from the movie! He looks awesome
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That the ending is as griping and looks as good as the ending to mortal kombat.....Thats gold baby!!!
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I know everything there is to know about movies and how to make them perfect. My opinion reflects that of everyone else. Therefore, the film I want to see is what everyone wants to see. The films I think are crap, are in fact crap. I have not seen an actual visual image of this, nor have the pertinent information to be sure that this is the definite and final form of Galactus, but it will be awful. Make no mistake. As I said, I know all...while most humans spend their time going to school or work or having sex, I surf the internet and watch every film released and take them as seriously as sacred life. This is how I know these things. Bow before my almighty UNDERINFORMED, NAIVE OPINIONS.
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Those who have read the film's novelization already know about the "sinister cloud" which appears in the film. It's not Galactus. The novel makes it pretty clear that the cloud is merely some kind of tool that drains a world of its energy. And the cloud has no sentience of its own, no intelligence. And we're told that there may be "dire consequences" for messing up the cloud-device's work. Which obviously implies that something is ruling over or controlling the cloud that will smack down on those who defy it.
Galactus ain't the cloud, people. It's just some damn thing that Galactus sends before he comes down to get fed or whatever. This is seriously misplaced hysteria. Damn, even though the book refers to Galactus (under the name "Gah Lak Tus"), it never calls the CLOUD Galactus. It just calls it "the destroyer" or, of course, "the cloud." -
BS to get around showing Galactus.
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...he never actually shows up in the book. He's kept entirely as an unknown threat. Surfer mentions his name once, and at the end there's the mention of possible consequences for what's happened. But that's it.
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If this is true, then the comic movie has peaked and is on its way back to the way it was treated in the 70's and 80's, like rehydrated taco bell beans that have been regergitated by a pomeranian.
oh, I hear Nicholas Hammond from the live action spiderman of the great 70's is gonna replace sea biscuit's bitch in Spiderman 4.
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Apr 18, 2007 5:33:38 PM CDT
Anyone who thinks Galactus would look silly in a movie.
by dapper swindler
..Has not seen what he looks like in the cgi cutscenes of Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Please check that out.
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...Kirby intended Galactus to represent God in the comics. No shit. That was what the "G" was supposed to stand for. Editorial had a small shit fit at the very idea (apparently putting the gods of other cultures in your comics was cool, but not so much the God of the Christians and the Jews). So God became Galactus and history was made.
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If Galactus is God then maybe he should be represented by a burning bush instead of a cloud.
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For clearing that up...I hadn't known about the book, but I was pretty sure they wouldn't make Galactus a freaking cloud. Talkbackers are just anxious to turn any bit of news they hear into "Oh no, this is gonna ruin a movie I already assumed would suck anyway"!
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was actually pretty damn cool. but ff2 will be as lame as ff1.
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or has that not really been leaked?
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torpedeo the film, it's true, but they've been used as bad metaphors for sex TWICE now as everyone predicted the would be. Unnecessary, and I must say Tobey's Parker could've used the boost in characterization in depicting his scientific acumen.
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Then cant wait for the Watchmen movie as represented with glove puppets and the remake of ben hur starring a hive of wasps and a toaster as rome, bravo sudio heads you rock my world
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A cloud???? This is their way of cutting cost. They put too much money in giving Silver boy a pair of balls and they said "Fuck we are out of money, make him a puff of smoke"
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It could be like V-GER in the first Star Trek movie. Except instead of an old space probe sitting there it could be GALACTUS in all his purple suited glory.
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I'm telling you, search google for images of Galactus in the cutscenes. If anyone can find a video of the scene, post it here.
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Not the gameplay cutscenes
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Apr 18, 2007 7:33:37 PM CDT
BREAKING NEWS! Marvel Films future villain lineup!!!!!
by iamjack'suserid
http://tinyurl.com/yots5l
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Why do they have to change him? If they decided to make a Silver Surfer movie, and they shot it, and they've released the trailer, how could they just NOW figure out that they don't like Galactus as a giant guy..thing.. dude? They should have figured that out a long time ago and then decided that it wouldn't work and scrapped the whole damn thing. This has disaster written all over it.
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Why? Because an even bigger travesty called Transformers is being made and there's been nothing but ball sucking from this site when they know it's just wrong. But hey money talks, especially when it comes to Michael Bay. Hey, here's an idea, why not have Bay direct the 3rd sequel if this one doesn't fail miserably? It's already a fucked up franchise in terms of casting and creative choices, plus Tom Rothman and Michael Bay can snort coke and suck each other's dick between takes.
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Testify!
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PLAYING GALACTUS!!!!
so....a cloud that eats planets. if we can handle a guy who stretches, a chick who turns invisible, a guy made of orange rock, a guy whos ability to bursts into flames also allows him to fy and T-1000 on FUCKING SURFBOARD i think we can handle a fucking giant. -
It sounds like a sequel to the Coreman movie. I wonder what kind of genitals the storm cloud will have. Summer of sequels = year of the cgi genitals.
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The world protects themselves with galoshes and yellow raincoats!
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this is why comic book movies suck. its amazing, the first movie was bullshit, yet it made some money. you would think they would up the anty this time. looks like they are not going to. im amazed the producers and creators decided to go the EL CHEAPO route, instead of a balls to the walls cliffhanger ending. i knew FF2 was gonna suck, first screenings said it sucked, this news sucks, its gonna suck period. time to look forward to the other films being released this summer, as this one is off the list for me to see.
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still lame.
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When the trailer came out it got me excited, now I hear this rumor.
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Wonder Twins used to take the form of a cloud.
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Why does Galactus need a starship?
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I'd rather have Galactus be like he was in the Marvel Ultimate Universe, or even in the Marvel Manga where he was a whole mess of spores. When those versions of Galactus came out, I considered it sacrilege, but even the worst of those revisions would be better than a talking cloud!
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Will Pixar pick up on this and do an all-cloud feature film, where clouds just talk to each other?
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Wonder why no one has shouted that one yet?
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Fantastic Four as a filmchise has been a disaster from the start.
Fantastic Four was miscast with the exception of chiklis as the thing, and then they couldn't even get the makeup right.
Jessica Alba is too young to be sue storm and she is latina.
Ioan Gruffudd as Mr Fantastic, I don't buy it with his painted on white temples. Again he's also much too young for the part.
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the fact that he said that comment in public, is exhibit #1 for his firing on July 5th. When Transformers, AKA Giant Fucking Robots cleans house and he has to pay orphans to fill seats at the premiere of flatulance four. first movie was shit, second movie will be shit covered in shit.
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So much for your scoops!
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We need a filmmaker to prove that the original material sucks. I know! Let's do a film about a comic book character that shares only it's name and let's create a whole new movie that will suck ass! Call Halle Berry and that Pitof asshole and you got another winner!
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Fishburne Silver Surfer vs. Weaving Megatron, the WALLS WILL VIBRATE WITH GRAVITAAAAASSSSS.
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If Uwe Boll directed this, Galactus would be Samuel Jackson, cause we all know Sammy loves purple. Only, he wouldnt be purple, he would be dressed in black and Uwe would call him Balactus. And Pam Grier would be the Silver Spoon and the earth would be a big bowl of corn flakes.
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Matthew Fox has been Confrimed as Racer X. For s fan of lost, this cant be good. Why? it must mean, that they will have to write out.
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Confirmed last night that Fishburne will be the Silver dude and NOT Galactus. I bet we wont even hear his voice or see him and he is now being kept for FF4 pt 3..
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...why not Galactus?? *shrugs* lol Seriously, I agree with Shermdawg (and probably others have said this as well.) The effect was probably seen out of context and is being done ala ID4. I would imagine as Galactus enters our atmosphere, there would be such an effect. You have to admit it would look cheesy if he just showed up, sat on the North Pole, and started taking nibbles. And you have to admit, if Michael Bay were to add Unicron to Transformers, it would be a storm cloud... and it would piss on everyone, as per Bumblebee.
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This has to be the worst news I've read since I found out Jamie Kennedy was getting to make ANOTHER shit-can "movie." But really guys we may be able to make a difference on this one. I encourage everyone to bitch about this as much as possible as often as possible to as many people that will listen. I don't know about you people but if we're finally gonna get a movie with Galactus and they make him into a fucking cloud then I'm not gonna even acknowledge the shit as a feature film and go rent the Roger Corman "classic". You know Hollywood has to check this site for feedback on shit like this. The studio can't just ignore millions of geeks crying in outrage. OR CAN THEY??? ugh worst episode ever
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but is he in my ass?
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Looks great ;-)
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I never saw the first "Fantastic Four" movie, and I'm glad I didn't. I'm not a fan of half-baked, poorly conceived, emotionally flat, stupidly acted trash films. Some people are, but I'm not.
Compare the decision to turn Galactus into a cloud with the creative tastiness going on with "Spider Man 3," or "Iron Man," or even "Speed Racer." Rothman, like all his Fox henchmen, dumb everything down farther than even I thought it could be dumbed down. Per their Fox mantra, they appeal to the lowest common denominator with everything they do. There have been a few ripples of interest over the years, I suppose ("24"), and they certainly garner good ratings, which is the bottom line, but I dislike their mantra to dumb everything down. It's a huge, narcissistic disservice to our country.
I'll skip "Fantastic Four 2" -- like I skipped the first FF movie -- and go see "Spider Man 3" and "Iron Man." -
Then again, I just read NinjaRap's comment that "the cloud" isn't Galactus, it's just one of Galactus's weapons sent to absorb all of Earth's energy. Maybe he's right.
I'm still interested in seeing teh film. -
#1 Rothman's mind-set on his disdain for ever fully introducing the Sentinels in the X-Men series due to his "comic-book giants are silly" attitude obviously applies to a 30-foot tall cosmic god as well.
#2 The hard-core fanboy/comic-book geeks that are intimate with the 1-dimensional drawn characters are the minority. It is the majority of folks that flood the theatre for summer comic-book movie blockbusters that are NOT as intimate with the characters. Therefore, they could care less if this "Galactus" threat is a cosmic-cloud or a giant in a purple-and-pink body armor.
#3 Budget, budget, budget... Obviously, the Surfer is the focus for the special-effects this time around. And it's a HELL of alot cheaper to have the CGI-Department crank out a big cloud with a James Earl Jones-like voice-over than it is to create a believable 30-foot tall Space-God with freakin' eye-beams coming out of his helmet. -
I said I wouldn't see FF in the Theatres, and I didn't. When I finally caught it on cable - it was as horrible as I predicted - Although I was pleased that they pretty much nailed the Johnny Storm/Thing relationship. Other that that? Awful through and through.
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And gigantic GALACTATING breasts.
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because the technology wasnt there. I think that there is a lot tehno-snobbery on this site. or at least cgi-snobbery. Hollywood has found out the hard way that, cutting back on the old style effects was a mistake. Once this galactacus was revealed as a cloud. The hard core fans turned on the movie. But i suspect the real reason why there is no giant robot is Fox dont want to compete with Transformers. once they heard and saw the robot designs they scrapped theirs. Hence the cloud and seeing as no on on the talkbacks seems to care or know anything film production. A cloud is cheaper to do. Becuase i tend to ignore the haters. I will see this film anyway. That was the lesson the learnt from titanic. One more thing. Remember Fight Club. Here is one thing you didnt know. That movie went into production behind murdoch's back. He heard rumours about it. But this was still a film which was being shot under tight secrecy. Murdoch knew nothing about the film. The film was made and handed to execs, Murdoch came of course as the owner. And was enraged by what he saw. The ramification of Fight Club was the hiring of Tom Rothman. Rothman has the ear of Murdoch. Murdoch has a view of that 20th Fox is a family company and should make family orientated films and after Afer all news corp is a Family run company. Futurama and the simpsons have in the past been the victims of this kind of thinking. The simpsons is Murdoch's biggest cash cow
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ganymede 2010. I am all for peoples opinions but this contanstant whining is getting repeitive. Gett off your asses, starting making your own movies. What a bunch of whiners.......
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Guy who turns into an orange rock...guy who stretches..guy who turns into flames and can fly...hot chick who can't act but turns invisible, silver dude from space on a board who can fly...those exist in the 'real' world, scientifically of course, but a giant purple guy can't? Come on now...lots of talkbackers have conceded that Galactus can appear as something else, but a cloud (if true) is very weak. I think the transformers shouldn't be robots but clouds because having big robots running around on Earth is just plain stupid.
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are oversensitive geeks that feel the need to post "Shut the Fuck Up","Wait'til You See It!", "You'll be first in Line!"etc., etc. Stop taking it all so seriously,there're just MOVIES guys,some of you sound like you're about to snap and go on a killing rampage of your own. Chill out, wash the sand out of your vagina, and try to put things in perspective. Relax, it's AICN, we're just havin' a laugh...
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and overzealous geeks.
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If I didn't want cheesy looking bad giant guy in a movie, why should I even be interested in a cheesy movie (that's Fantastic Four of course). The studios just want our monkey to wear a suit and look serious in it.
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The voice of Galactus will be none other than Voldemar H. Brakley Guerta!!
Excelsior!!
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Granted: It's not always possible to make a literal translation from most comic book stories. However, some things are simply part of that comic book's universe and should not be tampered with, no matter how cool some comic hating screenwriter thinks their new idea is. Sometimes you get something acceptable like non-spandex wearing X-Men or organic webshooters, but too often these new additions are about as useful as nipples on a batsuit. So, should Galactus be a thousand foot giant in space EXACTLY the way Kirby drew him? Probably not. So, should he be a big angry cloud instead? No, because it's not the character. Is it possible to find something acceptable in between? I don't see why not. Can I stop asking and answering my own questions? Yes, I can , and I will do so right now.
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"Wash the sand out of your vagina." :D
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Did you know about this supposedly "official response"?
http://tinyurl.com/234xv4
The film's still prob. gonna be a steaming pile of horse turd, and they neither confirm or deny Galactus' final "form", but Fishburne as the Surfer is cool...Sorry if this is "old news"... :-)
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I would not be suprised if he is not a dissembodied Cloud--but a cloud that is in the form of Galactus's head... kind of a translucent spirit head
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some kind of precious text. saying that they are things should not be tampered with gives them that kind of aura. if you think that Artistic licence doesnt or should not apply to comic books, i think is ridiculous. not everyone read comic books. Murdoch runs his business in a family way. This means that, despite the horror of fans, the orders came down from on high to humanize doom. That is the truth. I saw a superb documentary about Murdoch. This is how I know all this. Murdoch is not an editor but nothing gets done without his say so. So after the fight club mess he literally will veto the look of a film. After titanic he ordered all studio finances to be curbed regarding Blockbusters. That is the way He does things.
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Like most filmmakers these days. The rest of us however would like the giant cosmic singularity standing in the middle of NYC, thanks.
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improves on the comic books, you'll know because it will make insane amounts of money.
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They are still not making those kinds of movies. They are making "realistic" superhero films. What a friggin' joke.
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looked at the videogame cut scenes? They get the overall scale which is the most important thing in my opinion. So I'd do that and then I'd focus really closely in on the eyes, mouth, hand, etc. so you only really get a good look at the overall costume except from the distance. I say it could be quite cool. And I would give him Kirby craggle face like Darkseid and glowing eyes to make him appear more alien. You need him as a tangible presence if you are going to tell a story in which the whole purpose is to get Galactus to pay attention to you so as to not destroy you. Maybe they aren't telling that story, but if they're not, they're idiots.
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...So annoyingly repetitive. If Godzilla 1998 were coming out right now, you'd be saying, "Shut the fuck up you whiny fanboys! It's a giant lizard walking through a city! What more do you want?? If there had been a fantasy element to the movie it would've just looked silly on the big screen!" (Except, of course, most of that would have been misspelled and missing punctuation and some capitalization.) How long were you living under that rock? What kind of moron thinks that fantastic imagery looks "silly" on film? You would probably think that a movie with a 30' tall flaming shadow-demon, wielding a flaming whip would look silly on screen and such a film would bomb, huh? You'd never imagine such a film doing well, much less earning Oscars like Fellowship of the Ring did.
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With lots of Detatchable Earth Destroying Machines that Begin Destroying Earth . . . Sort of like Fantastic Four meets Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions meets Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But without the energy cloud.
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the only reason i wanted to watch this movie after the mess that was the first was because ive always wanted to see the surfer and galactus on screen. knowing it sucks, ill still go watch it, just because of silver surfer (i mean, its only seven bucks people).
but the comic book geek in me sees a lining to the dark.. nevermind. anyway, since there is a 3rd one coming out, maybe this is the best way to represent his coming. and then we get a 21 century larger than life galactus in the 3rd one?
and for those that talk about the believability of a being such as galactus, well im a practicing, catholic, and even i have my doubts that i believe god exists. but i believe in him. galactus is the most powerful single being in the marvel universe. kirby intended him to be a god. or at least near omnipotent.
and why are we even talking about believability in a movie that has a man that can turn into fire? -
After all, the rock guy, the invisible chick, the fire guy and the rubber guy can't be expected to battle something we can't believe. There are no giants. There are clouds. And many clouds have silver-coated locals policing the breaks for 'em.
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Or so we think.
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characters and ideas have about 1,000x more creativity than any of the "talent" involved here.
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Hey guys, this rumor was reported on Atack of the Show today as debunked. It was on their news scroll. I can't quote it word for word but they producers say that "fans will be well pleased" I hope that means that we will get the "Kirbyish" design that we are hoping for. Why does G4 have this news and this site doesn't yet?
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When the properties revert back to Marvel I'm sure they'll probably reboot all of the franchises cept for spiderman, save for new actors. To all of the Naysayers about having the comic book Galactus, a real director would take the essence of the character and make it kewl as hell, and not an F'ing cloud either. Do you realize the source material here? Comic books. Have fun, cut loose with some uber I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N!!! With the cgi technology we have today, he could bring down the house with his presence...in the hands of a real director. Let's have the real Doc Doom and a CGI nasty assed Thing too. Fox went cheap on what could have been the next awesome look forward too franchise...but they dropped the ball and pissed down their legs due to lack of the aforementioned imagination. Sorry, not even bringing in SS will save this crapfest. (Funny how a cute little family picture called 'The Incredibles' totally kicks FF's ass) It's suxxors saying all this cuz I grew up on FF. Sad...what could have been, man.
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Apr 19, 2007 9:40:24 PM CDT
ATTACK OF THE SHOW isn't exactly brilliant journalism..
by bob cryptonight
I don't know how much I would trust that prune-faced kid or the hot chick. That show has changed so much since it's start...the producers must be schizophrenic!
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Actually I don't know what it said, but I said "G4 fucking sucks, bring back 'CALL FOR HELP' with the chubby guy and the girl who accidentally posted her boobs on the internet".
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No, I've seen female genitalia in the clouds before. I've also seen them in ink blots, but that could mean there's something wrong with me. lol
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Check out the really cool (but Brief) Cinematic on Ultimate Alliance, where galactus stolls through a destroyed planet, and tell me that doesn't rock ass so hard
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isn't the only thing that's changed...I don't even recognize g4 anymore. it's pulled an mtv showing shows that don't have anything to do with their namesakes. hell even tvland is showing feature films these days.
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I just had to start an account with AICN just so I can voice my moral outrage for what I just read.
Marvel....what can I say?
STOP F%@#&#G UP OUR FAVORITE MARVEL CHARACTERS!!!
I accepted HULK as a mistake you guys made, and X-Men The Last Stand doesnt count as a Marvel film as far as I'm concerned...it didn't happen.
The spoilers I heard about Spider-Man 3 are disappointing but forgivable.
But if Galactus really will be a cloud, then I am wiping my hands of Marvel as of then.
There's no hope anymore.
It's a sure sign that Marvel doesn't care that much about pleasing their die-hard fanbase who make up the majority of the film revenue for most films.
Galactus...a f____ing cloud.
Im so mad my heart hurts. -
That Galactus cinematic will make your guts run cowardly from your anus! The cloud is such a cop-out.
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....that the Thing is the shortest one of the four. Now it is no suprise that they go with this rain cloud care-bear bullshit. Even if old purple head is not feasable for the big screen, at least the traditional outline with the horns (or whatever) on his helmet should be seen through the mist or something. One can only hope this is just a bs rumor.
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...Why not? Lost in Space did it..and it was awesome! Seriously, I think I would prefer a talking carrot to a cloud.
The carrot is THE shit, man.
A cloud...is just...a cloud.
Mucho Lameo dude. Get Galactus right, or gimme a carrot. -
At least he has a job, you fairies.
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Not for long I'll bet........
you jerk.
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