Fantastic Four (2015)

[MechaGodzilla]

Originally Posted by mrr1

For the sake of this movie, I hope you are right. But seeing what Marvel has done with Thor and GotG I would like to see what they could do with the Fantastic Four!

Oh heavens, no!

[DisneyBlu]

The Fantastic Four's Battle With Doctor Doom Sounds Epic

It’s been hard to get a grip on The Fantastic Four over the last few months. Its been dogged by rumors and hearsay surrounding Josh Trank and its troubled production. Now we’re just a few weeks away from the film actually being released, and it’s a relief that we’ll finally be able to judge it by what we see on screen. By the sound of things, the Fantastic quartet’s battle with Doctor Doom is going to be insane.

Don’t just take my word for it though. This declaration has come from none-other than The Fantastic Four’s director himself, Josh Trank. The 31-year-old filmmaker, who got his shot at the blockbuster after his sterling work on 2012’s low-budget Chronicle, spoke to Entertainment Weekly about what we can expect when Mister Fantastic, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, and The Thing go up against Doctor Doom. Trank explained:

There’s plenty of reasons to believe that The Fantastic Four could be the surprise superhero flick of the summer. Trank’s work on Chronicle was exemplary, while writer/producer Simon Kinberg has proven himself a stalwart of the genre thanks to his work on the X-Men franchise.

Meanwhile, the pair have also assembled themselves a truly world-class cast. Miles Teller is one of the most promising young leading male actors in American cinema because of his performances in Whiplash and The Spectacular Now. In fact, one of the only people who could rival him for that crown is Michael B. Jordan, who also appears in The Fantastic Four.

It doesn’t stop there, though, because both Kate Mara and Jamie Bell have showcased just how eclectic yet magnetic they can be over the better part of the last decade with their various roles. Personally, the real reason why I’m excited for The Fantastic Four is the chance to see Toby Kebbell as Doctor Doom. Kebbell has a raw, complex intensity that should mean that he steals the show as the villain. As long as he’s given the room to shine that is.

Of course, there has also been a wide array of naysayers who have taken umbrage with the fact that The Fantastic Four deviates from its source material. There have also been rumors that Trank didn’t adjust well to directing such a huge film and had to be replaced by Matthew Vaughn for some bigger scenes and reshoots. All of this sounds like it's far off the mark, though, and I’m relived that on August 7 we’ll be able to judge for ourselves whether Trank excelled with The Fantastic Four.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Fanta...pic-72394.html

I don't know why "director says his movie will be awesome" was made into an article, but at the very least the action scenes will be better than anything we've seen with the Fantastic Four. I hope they're shown actually working as a team and they all have that moment of "okay, we have these powers, let's use them" and whoop Domashev's ass.

I also hope for an "it's clobberin' time," accompanied by a giant Thing-on-Domashev ass beating... but that's just me.

[Megalith]

If there is any ounce of truth to Vaughn's involvement, my curiosity for this film just jumped 500%.

[Infernal King]

Matthew Vaughn sucks.

[AaronJ]

Originally Posted by Infernal King

Matthew Vaughn sucks.

Come on man. Tell us what you REALLY think!

[Batman1980]

Jonathan Trank should tranq himself so we don't have to subject ourselves to his movies anymore. Then again this could end up being like GoTG and shock me after I see it. Difference is the previews completely swung me around on that movie. I believe it's less than 1% of the time I don't like the previews for a movie and end up liking it anyway.

[Infernal King]

Originally Posted by Darth Anakin

Jonathan Trank should tranq himself so we don't have to subject ourselves to his movies anymore. Then again this could end up being like GoTG and shock me after I see it. Difference is the previews completely swung me around on that movie. I believe it's less than 1% of the time I don't like the previews for a movie and end up liking it anyway.

Josh Trank

And you don't have to subject yourself to his movies, wtf are you talking about

[pikeman1]

[Infernal King]

Dear Fox: Please take a production photo of your actors in more than 1 pose. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Everyone

[Batman1980]

Oh, I thought I was the only one who thought that promo poster was atrocious. Glad to see I was mistaken.

[LuckyDragon]

Johnny Storm IS Pyro.

Ben Grimm IS the Rock Monster from Star Trek V.

Sue Storm IS Sub-Zero.

Reed Richards IS a parachute instructor.

And they are not allowed to smile at all.

[Bolty]

I'm confused, what is the deal with them just standing in every poster/image? Show the supporting cast, show an image of a battle sequence, show them confronting Doom, show them located somewhere else besides that dreary backdrop.

I've seen posters for terrible movies that were great.

Maybe they think the movie will be a huge upgrade over the marketing that folks will be impressed in some way----"Well it was better than the movie posters." "Yeah, it was."

[DisneyBlu]

Fox didn't want to spend more money than they had to. One photoshoot, that's it. Soon we'll get posters featuring altered photos of the actors from other works.

There will be a movie poster featuring Mr. Fantastic, inexplicably behind a drum set...

[Infernal King]

You gotta spend money to make money.

Unless you're Sony.

[zeze]

Originally Posted by pikeman1

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Um, a five year old could do a better Photoshop job.

[DisneyBlu]

Originally Posted by Infernal King

You gotta spend money to make money.

Unless you're Sony.

A lot of people have criticized Marvel Studios as having mostly crappy posters (I haven't had a problem with any of them), so while we can't say posters indicate whether a movie is good or bad, speaking purely about the actual posters, they've sucked.

It looks like any generic, action/sci-fi. The "scorched Earth" is reminiscent of any Young Adult adaptation out there.

I miss the days of Drew Struzan posters... or when posters weren't conjured up by lazy designers with basic Photoshop skills.

Maybe the artists don't care, maybe the studios don't care. It's funny - some of the best movie posters of all time are actually super simple. Jaws, E.T., The Exorcist, Ghostbusters, but they have this arresting iconography that sticks with you. Stuff like these Fantastic Four posters are just meant to be stuck in movie theater hallways and on the sides of buses showing you the faces of the main cast in the movie.

I'm not asking for much, but when you have over 50 years of comics to draw from, why not posters along the lines of images like this?









So many dynamic, fun, interesting poses, and they have these four standing there, "staring ominously." These comic covers are great because they imply action and motion -- the team leaping into an adventure!

The less interesting ones are the "we're standing here looking like we're reading a map guide in a mall" poses.

[DisneyBlu]

Hell, even the 2005 one had some better, more interesting (and livelier) posters, like so:

[LuckyDragon]

Originally Posted by DisneyBlu

These comic covers are great because they imply action and motion -- the team leaping into an adventure!

Naw, screw that. Better to show off that the film features a big energy beam shooting up into or down from the sky, just like Iron Man and Star Trek and half a dozen other sci-fi movies from the past few years:



And make sure to point out that it's from the studio that brought you another popular comic book film.

[mrrant_33]

Originally Posted by LuckyDragon

And make sure to point out that it's from the studio that brought you another popular comic book film.

I've always loved the subtle self promotion from studios...

From The Studio That Brought You X-Men: Days Of Future Past

[LuckyDragon]

Originally Posted by mrrant_33

I've always loved the subtle self promotion from studios...

From The Studio That Brought You X-Men: Days Of Future Past

It always amuses me. From the producer of [movie], from the studio that brought you [movie], from executive produer [person who had practically nothing to do with the movie], etc.