You are going to have to some how come to terms that there are VERY FEW people who are excited about this movie. I'm glad that you are excited about this movie, but you cannot get feelings hurt and take every slam of the movie personally. It is going to be a very long 9 months for you.
Think of it this way, you have a long 9 months before a movie you are looking forward to comes out. The lionshare of Fantastic Four fans are going to have to wait, what looks like another few years, before they even get a chance at a movie they want to see.
You ARE NOT, going to talk anyone here into liking what they have seen about this movie, please understand that and it will be a much easier ride to August.
This. Fox proved us wrong with X-Men: First Class. Now they once again have to prove me wrong when I have EVERY reason to be skeptical.
When one of the few things known about the film is that Doctor Doom is an angry IT guy that would be like if Marvel Studios came out and said, "Ronan the accuser isn't so much a patriot as he is an ultra-nationalist and he dies at the end and never gets to redeem himself" or "The Mandarin is a self-made man who hides behind an actor to cover his true identity. Oh, and he's not Chinese at all. He's played by a white Englishman" you can imagine the backlash.
Combine that with there never being a good Fantastic Four movie but three terrible ones and there is every reason to doubt this film. It has everything to do with Fox's silence and when we actually learn something, it's how unfaithful Doctor Doom is from his costume to his background. There is no reason to anticipate this film and every reason to bash it given Fox's silence.
Now if by the end of the film, Doctor Doom takes control of Latveria, is shown to be an engineering and AI genius and has his ego as his main weakness, then yes, it will still be Doom but Fox hasn't shown us any of that. That's just speculation. Until we see some stills or a trailer that actually contains something positive, it's ignorant to root for this film.
The choice of Josh Trank as director just brings to mind memories of TASM and how Marc Webb directed one low-budget yet critically acclaimed film only to wind up making underwhelming Spider-Man films. Simon Kinberg is a good writer as we've learned from DOFP and Sherlock Holmes but he rewrote somebody else's script up until the last second which means there wasn't time for any polish. Even the cast - while good actors - aren't worth rooting for since Halle Berry also sucked in Catwoman after she'd already won an Oscar while Ryan Reynolds did Buried and Fireflies in the Garden but was horrible in Green Lantern. You can like Divergent, House of Cards, Nymphomaniac, The Wire and Planet of the Apes but that doesn't mean that the same actors will offer the same level of performance if Trank clashes with Millar and Vaughn in the editing room and we wind up with abandoned subplots, a lack of character development, a pace that drags and makes the film feel longer than it is and/or an inconsistent tone which we may very well be the case due to the lack of a trailer and a two month delay. Granted, the delay may be due to Fox leasing their cloud CGI technology which stretched out post-production and delayed reshoots but that's a best case scenario. More importantly, that best case scenario is CONJECTURE. All that we know is that FF was delayed for two months which means that something is holding up post production just like filming was held up until the actual last second because Kinberg was still rewriting the entire script.
So why root for something when all that you know about it are delays because Kinberg wasn't happy with the script and Doctor Doom seems like a less faithful CBM villain than Malekith was?
