I didn't follow the production of this film and so I can't recall quotes. They mentioned Galactus would be in the movie in some shape or form...you can look up quotes all you want but it really doesn't matter and it is detracting from my original argument. They had to have known some fans would be pissed with changing Galactus' form...so they softened the blow by still making him a cosmic force to reckon with, they had his shadow on Saturn, and you could IMO clearly see his head and face in the clouds at the end. Nothing coincides or contradicts that Galactus is or isn't the cloud does it? You can't entirely prove he is the cloud just as I can't entirely prove he is in it. It's all left open for the fans since they never explicitly said anything about it. And until the next film or a confirmation from someone up high...then it will stay this way. It's all subjective, just like Venom's death, Galactus' death, Doom's 'death' again, etc...A lot of people saw Galactus in the cloud, those who thought the change worked well. The people who were completely pissed off sitting in the theatre red in the face didn't notice anything because they didn't care about it anymore. This movie was not about Galactus...it was about the Surfer and his interaction with the Fantastic Four. Now you can bet that if the Surfer movie is greenlight...Galactus will play a much bigger role and the treatment of the character will be much better. Now you can still deny all you want, your opinion and your choice, but with a set budget, a set time frame, and with all the other constraints on a movie, something else would have suffered to pour money and man hours into making a CGI Galactus...something else would have suffered, even more than Mr. Fantastic's CGI. Just like in X3, not everything we wanted was possible due to time and money (a Colossus vs. Juggernaut fight). It's fine people didn't like this or didn't like that, but it is idiotically ridiculous to pout in a movie theatre and ruin the experience just because one character who was in the last 5 minutes wasn't exactlyt he way you wanted. Same for pissy Venom fans that didn't like his look or Eddie Brock's. Now once again for the last time...I wanted a big @ss Galactus fist fight on Earth like everyone else...loved Ultimate Alliance's battle...but not allowing yourself to understand the changes that obviously had to be made for unobvious reasons is childish.
and there it is. you have proven my point exactly. you are simply incapable of admiting anything that contradicts your own thought (or the thought put in your mind by those in authority). You are also incapable of admitting when you are wrong. even though being wrong is not a big deal. (we are all wrong at one time or another).
having a discussion with this kind of mindset is a total waste of time.
the question was simple.
did they try to "soften the blow" as you asserted?
the situation is that you have a group of people who REALLY, REALLY wanted to see their character FULLY REALIZED on the big screen.
Fox/Story knew this, and also knew that they were NOT going to show him. AT ALL. (other than in name)
you are smart enough to know that there are ways Fox could have "softened the blow" of not seeing him.
they could have
A)told people that he wasn't going to be in the movie in the way they wanted (they could come up with a million reasons).
B) They could have excluded him altogether and NOT shown him at all. WIth the promise/hope that when he does appears he will be as they expected.
C)they could have done EXACTLY what they did in the movie but simply had SS tell IW that Galactus was a being who uses the cosmic cloud to feed.
C)they could have used the cloud thing just as they did in the movie but instead of giving us ink blot shadows they simply could have shown something definitive. It would not have affected anyone's experience (even those who would HATE seeing Galactus) if Story simply showed DEFINITIVELY that there was someone inside the cloud. I'm talking a (real) silouhette), an arm, a ship, something solid and visible rather than ambiguous.
all those things would and could have "softened the blow".
but instead they
-insisted that Galactus WOULD be in the film (misleading us to believe in a humanoid form)
-denied the cloud rumors (
knowing that they would use the cloud)
-gave absolutely no indication of any solid being inside the cloud (inspite of what we force ourselves to believe)
those are the facts, but instead of simply admitting that on this LITTLE point you were wrong. That they in fact did not make an effort to "soften the blow" for those who really wanted to see Galactus as he is in the comics. You once again change the subject and refuse to do so.
imagine the waste of trying to discuss anything else with you.