What is silly is the sentiment expressed by Kinberg, Trank and others on this board that current and former comic book readers are precious little jewels that can't handle any change from the classic source material. When in fact, we are EASY.
Throw in a couple of reminders that you've actually read and respect the classic source material - put Steve in his Commander Rogers suit, add some grey to Wolverine's temples, put some yellow in the X-Men outfits, call the armor that Hank Pym is trying to steal the "Yellow Jacket" - and we are putty in your hands.
We'll follow along with any changes you make - organic webbing, mutant Phoenix, Norse God cosmic cube - so long as the characters are recognizable and you don't get too "cute" and make changes just for the sake of change. Or express open antagonism toward those who should be your customers.
And the idea that if this movie is "good" all will be forgiven? No way. Not now. There's too much competition. Within this calendar year I can watch the Avengers and the X-Men on the big screen, AOS Secret Warriors on ABC, Legends of Tomorrow on CW along with huge cinematic superhero battles featuring Marvel and DC characters. I can tune into the Flash, Arrow, Daredevil, Supergirl, Agent Carter and Jessica Jones on TV or head out to the cinema to catch Ant Man and Deadpool. "Good" is no longer good enough.
Some of that is well said.
However, this idea in our fanboy culture that almost boils down to "Get the costumes, colors and hair sort of right and we'll be fine with whatever other changes are made"?
I find that a little sad. And I've seen it a lot in fanboy communities of late. They're willing to excuse all kinds of flaws if the costume/design is right off the pages of the comics or anything resembling it, but will sometimes dismiss a clever new idea or approach because a costume isn't close enough to the comics. I dunno, I just think you're limiting your experience somewhat with that attitude.
Now, I don't think that's the reason most here aren't liking what they see, just an observation.
As far as costumes go...the Fantastic Four costumes are iconic, but they're not THAT cool. They're blue jumpsuits with gloves and boots with the number "4" on them and some white trim. They're hardly what makes The Four well, The Four. They've worn various other colors and street clothes over the years, and those looks have had little impacts on the quality of the presentation of the team. I don't even think what we're seeing are supposed to be costumes. They're more along the lines of prototypes, training wheels so they can really learn to utilize their powers to their full potential.
It'll be interesting to see whether, should this movie provide more classic costumes toward the end, people suddenly embrace all these changes (except for Doom. After the previous franchise and rumors of evil blogging, they'll need to provide a good version of Doom for people to accept him in any sense).
I'm a bit intrigued by their use of Doom here. I don't think they're just hiding him in the trailers. We haven't even seen much of Victor himself, and the soundtrack listing suggests he'll be somewhat in the background. I think Doom's going to be a bit of a mystery in this film. Which is an interesting approach. This movie seems to be very much just about the Four, and sort of an origin for Doom, but very much focused on the heroes.
