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I haven't been on this forum in almost a month.
You last posted in this forum (not counting today) on 11/11/2014....that is 6 days ago.
I haven't been on this forum in almost a month.
The bad critical and fan reaction to BATMAN AND ROBIN kept batman out of the theaters for 8 years. The bad critical and fan reaction to SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE kept Superman out of the theater for 19 years. Many on here who want to see a good interpretation of the FF fear that this movie will keep them from seeing a decent version for decades.
I think this is simplifying it a bit. It wasn't the bad reaction to the franchise's last films, it was a general disinterest in superheroes on the part of movie studios, period.
There were plenty of Batman and Superman projects in development after those failed sequels, though. Several iterations of both Superman and Batman went into development at various stages. What kept them out of theatres was not neccessarily a lack of demand or interest for them from the public, but a lack of fully developed projects on the part of the studio.
Why do people keep drawing analogies between this film and any Batman movie past or present? None of the analogies hold any water whatsoever... totally different situations.
Cause Batman in the last 25years has been on film and TV continousily. With wild tones from the gothic Burton Films, to the comical Schumacher and the grounded Nolan. No other comic character has literally seen it all like he has. Other characters have failed movies but there tones have been relatively consistent. The Story films were very much in the Schumacher house of comedy.
Plot details have allegedly leaked. I'm proud of you guys for not overreacting. It was a tough read. Oh lawd.
Some spoilers!
[BLACKOUT]Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.[/BLACKOUT]
Are you just seeing this now? We've all been angsting over it for days.

I always forget to visit these F4 boards, so yes.![]()
Why do they keep calling this Fantastic Four? It just...blatantly isnt.

The entire alleged plot spoilers!
Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.
Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.
Victor Doomashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.
Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.
Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.
Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.
Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.
There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.
The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there.
Somehow I hadn't seen this yet... wow, its even worse than I thought it'd be.
I mean... wow. I have no words.
tbh it doesn't sound horrible
Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.
Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.
Victor Domashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.
Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.
Why do people keep drawing analogies between this film and any Batman movie past or present? None of the analogies hold any water whatsoever... totally different situations.
You completely missed my point (and by the way....I absolutely love the Adam West BATMAN show...I am the old guy here, I watched it first run in the 60's as I read the crazy comics it was based upon....it was my first live action comic book character to be seen)....my point was....West's BATMAN was based upon the actual comics at the time....what we have now heard about the new FF movie is that it is based upon things that never happened in the comic in 50+ years of it's being published.
Two wildly different interpretation OF THE ACTUAL COMICS...something that the new FF seems to be missing.
The bad critical and fan reaction to BATMAN AND ROBIN kept batman out of the theaters for 8 years. The bad critical and fan reaction to SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE kept Superman out of the theater for 19 years. Many on here who want to see a good interpretation of the FF fear that this movie will keep them from seeing a decent version for decades.
The entire alleged plot spoilers!
Reed is a genius convenience store clerk with Ben. Reed's parents don't care about him, and Ben's dad is abusive. They're good friends and have each other's backs. Reed writes a paper for community college on teleportation that attracts the attention of Dr. Franklin Storm, CEO of the Baxter Building research center.
Storm has a son, Johnny, and an adoptive daughter, Sue, whose father, Storm's old partner, died in an experiment gone wrong. Johnny and Sue are party kids, and Sue is particularly disdainful of science. Reed and Sue don't get along at first.
Victor Doomashev is a anti-social Eastern European computer programmer and hacktivist who calls himself "Doom". He hates the 1%, particularly Storm, whom he claims corrupts science for profit.
Storm uses Reed's paper to complete some equations on a machine to access another dimension, the N-Zone. Reed invites Ben to watch the machine being turned on. Sue and Johnny are also there. Doom manages to hack into the Baxter Building's servers and use a computer virus to damage the machine, which explodes. Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben are exposed to otherwordly energy and become mutants with powers that they can't control.
Storm takes them to the Baxter Building and creates containment suits for their powers. They begin to train. Reed and Storm also begin developing a way to revert the accident. Sue blames Reed for everything, but they eventually become friends and then a couple. Ben can switch off his powers when he's not in danger. Johnny changes colors based on heat intensity, and Sue has some borderline telekinetic thing. Reed is pretty much Reed.
Doom finds out that the four have acquired powers and becomes angry it's not him, so he comes up with a plan to break into the Baxter Building to access the N-Zone through the rebuild machine. As a distraction, he reprograms a bunch of stolen military drones, the "Doombots", to attack the building. The four come together as a team for the first time and save people.
Doom activates the machine and gets technopathy powers or something, basically energy blasts and making machines obey to him, and a fight ensues. The machine goes critical, and, in order to prevent it from exploding and destroying the city, the four push into it and Storm shuts it off.
There's a countdown before it reaches critical mass. Inside the N-Zone, the four battle Doom again, and manage to leave him trapped there after he disfigures himself soaking up too much power. The Four manage to escape, but Ben gets the blunt of it to protect Reed and can't switch back.
The machine is destroyed, Doom is gone, the four have learned to work as a team, and Reed vows to find a cure for Ben. And it ends there.
