Fant4stic "It's Clobberin' Time!" - The Ben "Thing" Grimm Thread

[Ragnaroknroll]

Well considering I'm not seeing this steaming turd of a film there's no point in crying foul over this horrible design but I do find it fascinating that Fox has made 3 FF films and in none of them does he have his signature features.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

It's not good, I get the thing is meant to be misshapen and ugly, but you can still have competent design in his facial features. This is far far too messy to resesmble anything other than a pile of random orange rock and that is not what the thing is


I've seen people on fb and Twitter say he looks handicapped

I just don't get how the same studio can release this and the deadpool image at the same time and both be so amazingly far apart on the design scale

 

[Spider-Fan83]

The more i look at it, better he looks. I think he will look great on-screen. My only fear is how will Torch look like, the fire effects so far haven't been very convincing.

I want to see a different shot. I have a feeling this might just be a lousy shot, but I can't tell. And he could look better or could look worse. If he looks worse, that's going to be pretty bad.

with it being CG, its one of those things (no pun intended) where it will probably look better in motion then in still shots

there we're just seeing it from one angle, with one expression,... its not like we'll have time to notice the little details in the movie, as he will never be that still for that long

it'll come down to how animated he is in his movements and expression,...

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

with it being CG, its one of those things (no pun intended) where it will probably look better in motion then in still shots

there we're just seeing it from one angle, with one expression,... its not like we'll have time to notice the little details in the movie, as he will never be that still for that long

it'll come down to how animated he is in his movements and expression,...

This is an important point and something I hope they get right. With the first Hulk, I thought he looked great in still shots, but when he moved it was unnatural and distracting. With motion-capture technology, that's something that has gotten much better over the years, and one of the things I'm most interested in seeing is Jamie Bell's mo-cap efforts and how that works with the character.

 

[RAE072]

with it being CG, its one of those things (no pun intended) where it will probably look better in motion then in still shots

there we're just seeing it from one angle, with one expression,... its not like we'll have time to notice the little details in the movie, as he will never be that still for that long

it'll come down to how animated he is in his movements and expression,...

Wow, ANOTHER parallel to the BayTurtles movie.

Can't tell you how many times I heard this through production after various leaks of awful-looking promo material happened(just like this most recent FF banner leak).

When this image leaked:

Which was our first clear look at ALL the Turtles(literally, before any other promo material, sound familiar?) most everybody who cared thought they looked horrible(they do).

But there were a few people who continuously said "oh that's just a toy fair promo end cap thing! They''ll look better in motion on the BIG SCREEN"

They didn't.

The designs were bad, the motion capture poor, and little effort put into it.

I'm willing to bet quite a lot of internet dollars that it'll be the same situation with Trank-Thing.

 

[bubbadoom]

This Thing makes the Michael Chiklis version look better and better...

 

[TheComicbookKid]

An interview with Jamie for the season 2 of his show TURN on AMC.
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/se...stic-four-interview-/551aed3202a760524c00010a

 

[MakeMinesMarvel]

I'm willing to bet quite a lot of internet dollars that it'll be the same situation with Trank-Thing.

 

[JP]

Both Weta Digital and MPC are working on this film...

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Love the look.

 

[JP]

Well, no, that was the physical stand in on set. The above picture is the "finished version"... or almost finished version. Still 3-4 months of post production left.

 

[Flint Marko]

There are some shots where the Michael Chiklis suit actually looks pretty good, the one you just posted being one of them.
Maybe it's just because the picture is super small

 

[Hmarrs]

Edit
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...rn027TDFU9jGSU-cUa8RtK-A&ust=1428676266693732

 

[JP]

There are some shots where the Michael Chiklis suit actually looks pretty good, the one you just posted being one of them.
Maybe it's just because the picture is super small

Well, Chiklis looked great before he started moving.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

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Why?

I kept hoping that poster was just a bad angle, but it seems like they really did use a terrrible design. The bust looked better, why didn't they stick with that design?

Can't we get one good image or one bit of good news? This is so frustrating.

 

[Quasar]

Wwwwwhhhhhhhyyyyyyyy???????!!!!!????????

 

[Link]

An interview with Jamie for the season 2 of his show TURN on AMC.
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/se...stic-four-interview-/551aed3202a760524c00010a

He really understands the family dynamic of Fantastic Four and seems concerned that his portrayal of the character was proper.

 

[Sterling Archer]

His face reminds me of this:

 

[lordofthenerds]

The Thing looks just as bad as he did in the poster. Italian grandma-esque.

No real surprise there.

 

[Double B]

Oh dear me, no.

 

[Willie Lumpkin]

After seeing him in the Panama poster I thought: "That looks pretty bad, but maybe it's a bad angle."

Now after seeing this image, it seems to confirm he really doesn't look very good, but we haven't seen all of him and we haven't seen him moving yet.

Generally with CGI, I like how they look in still images, but the movement doesn't look right to me.

If these first two images are handpicked to put their best foot forward (as they certainly should be) what's going to happen when we see the things they don't want us to see? I'm a little frightened to think what's still to come.

 

[Rike]

He looks pretty ugly, but he's... well, The Thing.

So I guess I like what I'm seeing.

 

[HerosOnFilm]

is it THAT hard to give him the pronounced brow?? Really?

 

[Lencho01]

The supposed bust still looks better to me.

But, maybe it just shows that if they made him look exactly like the comics version, it'd look too cartoony rather than a man made of rocks.

 

[cronosred]

I almost have to laugh because for as much as they say they want to distance themselves from the Story films they basically gave us a CGI version of his Thing.