Fantastic Four

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:44 am

Not overly angsty.
Not pretentious.
Not gloomy.
Not pseudo-dark.
Not ridiculously introspective.

Quite a refreshing change from the recent formula for comic movies, really.

Thoroughly enjoyable. The action scenes don't really stand out as anything spectacular, but the character stuff and the humour is really well done.

Visual effects are good. Julian McMahon doesn't quite pull off the air of menace I'd have hoped for, and the arc with Ben was pretty predictable (and standard fare, really). But overall I felt it was a good, light fillum. Words like breezy spring to mind.

Went in half-expecting another Daredevil; came out quite quite pleased.

Gets the thumbs up from Brend.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:37 pm

Glad somebody started a new topic for this, I felt too late to post in the prior. Went to see this flick last weekend. My mother was kind enough to watch the kiddo (who's crawling now! ^_^) and the Mrs. (who never goes to the theater with me - it just ends up me and my best friend going - not that that's a problem by any stretch) went with me (along with my older sister-in-law and her daughter) to go see it.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, and not just because it has Jessica Alba (on my top five list of guuuuuuuh) in it. I'm rather surprised with super hero movies here recently. Other than the Thing having eyelashes (you have that much cgi in the flick but can't take the time to edit out some eyelashes?) and them managing to (quite frankly) seemingly trivialize one of the greatest Marvel villians ever, I enjoyed every second. The four had some real, believable chemistry going on, in my eyes anyway. Good flick.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:46 pm

Yea, they got the four right but Doom was soooo wrong. He didn't come off as the mad despot he should have been at all.

Other than some cheesy lines, a quick ending, and the fact that the Thing didn't look too scary, I'd give it a thumbs up. Pretty much a good, standard, straight-ahead comic book movie. Not quite there with Spider-Man, definitely a long way from Batman Begins, but better than Daredevil and Hulk.

jboyler · Post by **jboyler** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:20 am

I was dissapointed.

The film's final battle was too short, and Doom was too much of a whiny @*$#! In the comics he was always regal, noble, and powerful, but here he was kind of your run-of-the-mill sleazeball.

(Then again, I always found Doom more interesting than the rest of the characters, so maybe its my fault for being a fanboy.)

On the plus side, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans were great.

SPOILERS

The movie was at its best when they were sort of bumming around the house, having fun with their powers. The other part I really enjoyed was when Ben turns back into a human, and realizes he has to go back to being the Thing.

-J

Kup_1 · Post by **Kup_1** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:13 am

jboyler wrote:
The movie was at its best when they were sort of bumming around the house, having fun with their powers.
-J

When Johnny makes the Thing smack himself with the shaving cream...the little victory dance is the best!