EXCUSE ME!!!! Mind who you are calling am idiot you pathetic troll.
I'm the one meeting the director, attending the premiere and meeting the cast whilst you are hooked up to a monitor somewhere in your underpants in your parents house. ignorant troll.
(yeah...assumptions aren't nice are they?)
Sorry but I have been courteous and at worst a little playful with my posts and your ignorant remark has offended me. Trust me I am anything from mindless, I do NOT work for Fox and anyone who can make a character profile from a couple of post's on a message board is not only the idiot but a complete 'tool'.
Mod's if I'm out of line i apologise but I'm not used to being talked to like this, calling someone an idiot over an opinion over a movie is pathetic. Sorry.
How dare you talk to me like that?!!!
First off I took the liberty of calling you an idiot only because you were not very "courteous" in your post to the other guy.
secondly you could not be more wrong about your "assumptions" about me, but knowing that you "met the director and attended the premier" does explain a lot as far as your support for this film.
Let me explain why I said what I said.
You (story/Fox) are given the opportunity to do a movie about a particular genre and set of characters.
Prior to making the movie you get the chance to see others attempt to do the same thing.
you see the X-men and Spider-man. The x-men takes many liberties with the characters/stories/genre and though it is well accepted and well liked, it makes about 200 million at the BO.
Spider-man on the other stays very faithfull to the comics. It keeps the comic book/superhero aspects of the comics pretty much intact. This results in not only the film being loved but with a BO of 400 million dollars.
TWICE as much as the x-men.
you get the chance to observe some other movies as well and the lesson starts to form that the closer one is to the source material (however "silly" that material may
seem) the more successful the result.
You however decide not to adhere to this belief; at least not completely. You decide to take liberties and make major changes to the source material.
ok, it's not what I would have done, but you may have had your reasons and/or limitations for doing so.
it turns out that
every change you make,
everywhere you thought you could do it better, turns out to be bad. In fact your film gets a luke warm reception because while people liked the parts that were faithful, the parts where you made changes pissed people off.
The BIGGEST mistake/problem you/had made was changing the appearance/design/character of the main villain of your piece. While smaller changes such as the Thing's brow, or reed's characterization etc, had a negative impact, changing Dr.Doom was a disaster which threatned to ruin your movie.
yet in spite of the obvious problems the film makes enough at the BO to give you a second chance.
Since that time you had more opportunity to observe others try to tackle the comic book genre. With the results of movies like Elektra, Catwoman, SUperman returns, HUlk, not to mention Batman Begins, Spider-man 2, 300, sin city, etcThe lesson now becomes clear that
the further you go from the source material the worst off you are.
if there was any doubt of this, Frank Miller, the most successful comic to movies guy around says exactly that.
so now you get your second chance, and what do you decide?
first you decide not to bother to change even the little things (such as Thing's brow) even though it would have been an easy way to get people excited.
second you decide not to bother with the biggest problem of the first film; namely Dr. Doom. You may have changed your original design but you make no attempt to simply
duplicate the source material. Instead, still presuming to know better, you come up with a whole new design which is as different from the comics as the first design was. You continue to show us Julian Mcmahon's face inspite of the fact that a fundemental fact about Doom is that You DO NOT SEE HIS FACE.
but you don't stop there. Not only do you not fix the mistakes you made which turned people off in your first movie, but you decide to DO IT AGAIN. you take the main villain of the piece and change him even more drastically then you did in your first film. You turn him into something completely different.
You also take a classic, iconic, and awesome story which has stood the test of time for over 50 years, and you decide it's not good enough and come up with something else.
The result is that even though the film has not even been released yet you have paid a high price for your decision. you have already generated a lot of negative feelings for your film.
Other than
saying that you "made things better", and you gave us "full doom", and that "Galactus is in the movie" (blatant lies which unfortunately some "fans" still want to believe in spite of the clear evidence) The only thing you stay true to is the design of the SS, which interestingly is the ONLY thing keeping people interested in this movie.
I'm sorry but that is simply idiotic. It is stupid.
I will say that you are right. I was wrong to call you an idiot. I don't know you well enough to make that statement and I apologize.
But I will say that your comments and your support for Story/fox is as idiotic as Story/fox choices for this movie.
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