ultimatefan
The Batman must come back
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There is nitpicking, and there are people who are nearly impossible to please and who´ll trash a movie cuz of a scene they didn´t like or something they think doesn´t make sense - and often it does make sense, they just weren´t paying attention. But sometimes people will say a movie sucks because, well, it sucks. The story doesn´t work, the direction doesn´t work, it doesn´t work as a MOVIE, not simply as a comic book adaptation.
On paper, Fantastic Four is a relatively faithful adaptation. It gets basic facts and ideas from the comics. And it still is a piece of crap movie cuz the tone is all wrong, the writing is subpar, the direction has no sense of vision or style or mood or anything and some of the actors were incredibly miscast.
I´ll save judgement on GR cuz it hasn´t opened in my country yet, but from the look of it I fear it suffered the curse of Fantastic Four... I mean, who cares the movie sucked, it was still a BO hit, right? Better than taking itself so seriously like Hulk did and disappointing, riiiiight? - Unless it wasn´t being serious that plagued Hulk, but that´s another story... So now Marvel may think they must fill ALL their movies with lame puns and one-liners, cuz that worked SO well with FF, riiiiight? Except in this case they´re being used for a story of a guy WHO WAS CURSED for SELLING HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL and now becomes a HIDEOUS MONSTER WHO HAS TO FIGHT DEMONS EVERY NIGHT... You´d think the first two X-Men, the first two Spider-Man, Batman Begins, Hellboy, God the director´s cut of Daredevil, for Chrissakes, that all that would have taught something... You´d think..
On paper, Fantastic Four is a relatively faithful adaptation. It gets basic facts and ideas from the comics. And it still is a piece of crap movie cuz the tone is all wrong, the writing is subpar, the direction has no sense of vision or style or mood or anything and some of the actors were incredibly miscast.
I´ll save judgement on GR cuz it hasn´t opened in my country yet, but from the look of it I fear it suffered the curse of Fantastic Four... I mean, who cares the movie sucked, it was still a BO hit, right? Better than taking itself so seriously like Hulk did and disappointing, riiiiight? - Unless it wasn´t being serious that plagued Hulk, but that´s another story... So now Marvel may think they must fill ALL their movies with lame puns and one-liners, cuz that worked SO well with FF, riiiiight? Except in this case they´re being used for a story of a guy WHO WAS CURSED for SELLING HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL and now becomes a HIDEOUS MONSTER WHO HAS TO FIGHT DEMONS EVERY NIGHT... You´d think the first two X-Men, the first two Spider-Man, Batman Begins, Hellboy, God the director´s cut of Daredevil, for Chrissakes, that all that would have taught something... You´d think..