It happens every time FOX makes a superhero movie.
Story just uttered two words I never want to hear in a description of a Galactus movie...."Ultimate Extinction". Firstly, Ultimate Extinction was horrible...there was nothing Ultimate about it. Galactus went from a world devouring shakespearian character to a bunch of mindless drones floating in space who fly off the minute their "chain is broken". Galactus may be the finest crafted villian ever. The idea of a humanoid who survives the big crunch and is jetisonned into the new universe is just brillant. His omnipitence, his parrallels to a christian God (in the fact that he sends heralds to announce his return) who is malevolent.
Also the Watcher, who reveals himself as an elder whose purpose is to observe the events of history. These are great characters whose existence begs to be on the big screen.
However FOX time and again proves they don't trust comics (which makes me wonder why the bother with Marvel at all). They did not trust the supporting cast of X-Men, they felt they needed to bank on Wolverine and Magneto when Mr Sinister, Cyclops, Rogue, Gambit, Colossus and Apocalypse are all movie worthy characters with equally (if not better) backstories. They did not trust the humorless tone of a comic like Daredevil, and felt the need to factor in scenes like the playground fight and mess around with the much better directors cut. And with Fantastic Four they did not even bother attempting one of the greatest comic book origins, Dr Doom: who ended up a dime store Green Goblin.
Now I hear UE, and I cringe.
If people can take elves and giants in Lord of the Rings (and give it an Oscar), a hokey villian plot (and yes it was over the top) in Batman Begins, direct from comic style of Sin City, the otherworldly nature of Star Wars and absurd movies like the Incredibles and Shrek than surely Galactus is no trouble.
In fact movies often do better when the transport people to a world they do not fully understand.
Look, Fantastic Four 48, 49 and 50 are all worth about 1000+ dollars a piece, that is a lot for one comic. So there must be something to it. TRUST THE COMIC FOX. These stories and characters have stood on their own for 40 years. There is a reason fans pay out the a$$ for every classic story, and it's not because they are bad, it is because they are good. Translate them please.
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