Fantastic Four (Reboot): First trailer released

Fantastic Four (Reboot): First trailer released

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SpeedBash

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Zod

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Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Well, at least Captain America and the Human Torch are not played by the same actor any more!

MiniMan64

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189 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Well that looks different from last time!

Sheets Tabuer

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214 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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No Jessica Alba frown

SpeedBash

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RemaL

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Monday 20th April 2015
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looks good

SWoll

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257 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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After watching the latest trailer I'm actually more interested in seeing this than I am Age of Ultron. Don't get me wrong, I like the Marvel films a lot but TBH I after 2 Captain Americas, 2 Thors, 3 Iron Men and the original Avengers I'm a little bored of the current lineup.

Halb

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182 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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I'm gonna repost what I typed on a mate's fb wall.


I haven't liked the previous FF films. Also...I am automatically inclined not to like it because the studio is churning out remakes just to deny the rights going back to Marvel Studios, which prevents the universe widening. For myself the only non Marvel Cinematic Universe films to have captured the magic of the characters and made decent films are the Toby Spider-Man ones.
I feel we are having a glut of superhero films and the other studios will run the concept into the ground by constantly churning out reboots to keep the rights....of course it may make Marvel look to more obscure characters, like Guardians of the Galaxy.


I didn't realise FF and XM are both the same studio....I can guess that there's no shared universe because FF was a flop last time and they don't wanna risk bringing the XM juggernaut down....or the studio aren't allowed to...contracts maybe?

GarryDK

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157 months

Monday 20th April 2015
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Halb said:
I didn't realise FF and XM are both the same studio....I can guess that there's no shared universe because FF was a flop last time and they don't wanna risk bringing the XM juggernaut down....or the studio aren't allowed to...contracts maybe?
Same as Spiderman until recent events, I just think Sony thought that cross overs wouldnt work. Too many stars etc etc. Marvel have proved them wrong, so much so they managed to pull Spiderman away from them.

SpeedBash

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Wednesday 15th July 2015
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Brigand

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Wednesday 15th July 2015
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Nice to see Toby Kebbell getting some Hollywood exposure as Doctor Doom here, hope it boosts his career as he's a good UK Indie actor at the moment.

Halb

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182 months

Wednesday 15th July 2015
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I think the Ben Grimm casting is a joke.

GarryDK

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Wednesday 15th July 2015
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The whole thing looks like a joke. Hopefully I'm wrong.

mudflaps

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Wednesday 15th July 2015
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GarryDK said:
The whole thing looks like a joke. Hopefully I'm wrong.
Doesn't it just. I can't see one redeeming feature.

So it'll undoubtedly smash it at the box office.

The Beaver King

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194 months

Wednesday 15th July 2015
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Watched this trailer last night.

It looks horrific and the dialogue is cringe-worthy. The script sounds like it was written by a 14 year old who stole the lines from any generic action film he could get his hands on. The CGI is poor at best; somehow they have actually managed to make The Thing and Dr Doom look worse than the previous films.

I'm actually gobsmacked at how much of a backwards step this appears to be and it seems to confirm the notion that this is purely a quick cash-in so that Fox can retain the rights.

Zod

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257 months

Wednesday 15th July 2015
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Surely it can't be worse than the previous two? Can it?

JD

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227 months

Wednesday 15th July 2015
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Is it correc that the script they are using for this film was originally intended to be for a different film?

grumbledoak

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232 months

Saturday 8th August 2015
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I just watched this. On the negative side, it's a reboot so much of it is introducing the characters. On the positive, what plot there is is coherent if somewhat uninspired. A solid 5/10; it is well executed but that's all.

SWoll

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257 months

Saturday 8th August 2015
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I'm not sure I'd class 5/10 as solid...

grumbledoak

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Saturday 8th August 2015
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Feel free to offer a different term. It's better than many, especially in this genre - it didn't have Matt Damon spontaneously and inexplicably beating up a woman he had never previously met, or Tom Hardy giving his lines seemingly with a mouth full of underpants, or Jack Nicholson on acid. I nearly gave it a six just for being a well made comic book film. But I didn't warm to the characters, feel any real tension, or laugh.