When Did You Lose Hope?

[Val_Zod]

I'm speaking mostly to those who were at one point interested/excited for this film.

I personally was willing to give this the benefit of the doubt, and really liked the first teaser. However, the second trailer and the subsequent THR story pretty much confirming most of the bts problems took all the hope and interest I had away. Things only got progressively worse.

So how about you?

 

[Casius--J]

I'm not even sure now, I was annoyed at the "They'll go see it anyway" comments and Tranks attitude towards the fans.

I think for me it was when the entire cast was revealed and MJB as Johnny was the least of my concerns at that point. The the Doom blogger news broke a little later and I was out.

 

[Comic Book Guy]

I'd imagine for most when Trank went crazy and started posting on 4chan. I never had hope though personally.

 

[MyDudeSpidey]

I'd imagine for most when Trank went crazy and started posting on 4chan. I never had hope though personally.

That was fake.

 

[Jaxon]

The movie isn't as bad as people are smacking on it. I'm not going to get into a flame war, but if they just ramped up the action sequences a bit, and had more I think it would have been passed off as a promising intro for a franchise. The short action sequence with Reed and the troops was excellent, just needed more of it.
But alas, they skimmed completely on action and chopped around the story. It was 30 minutes too short.

 

[The Infernal]

For me it was when the cast was announced. From what seems the beginning to me there was very little to grab onto as a fan. It just seemed like the wrong direction from the get go.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Yeah, the casting was what set the worry-ball rolling for me. It was clear they were trying something different and the ol' spidey-sense kind of went 'if they can go that different with that, just how different are they willing to go with other aspects?'. Then with most every update upon update it kind of got worse until I was at the point were nothing in relation to this production surprised me.

 

[Zant]

I had hope till the very end, but the first official review killed it. It hurt. I like rooting for the underdogs. I rooted for First Class, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, World War Z and even the Last Airbender movie to be good before release. Oh well, you win some, and you lose some.

 

[Nathan]

Pretty much from the beginning when they announced Trank as the director to give it that Chronicles touch.

 

[Ragnaroknroll]

Pretty much from the beginning when they announced Trank as the director to give it that Chronicles touch.

This. Never liked the director choice at all. Casting choices only confirmed my doubts. And look how it all turned out? What a disaster.

 

[Jaxon]

Marvel has a distinct universe, and DC clearly now has a distinct style. F4 what was it going to do, start another cinematic universe? I don't think audiences can handle more than 2, maybe 3 with X-men, though X-men is so sub par (cartoonish with poor writing).
F4 needs to find a way into Avengers, maybe Marvel's phase 4 is it's only hope.
Clearly there were some good ideas in this movie just rushed, and so skimpy on action.

 

[TheGearMan]

When they cast baby face Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic and some skinny English guy as the Thing.

 

[Destructus86]

Pretty much since the first info on the characters was released. I knew at that point it was a flop.

 

[Harry Dresden]

I gave up hope as soon as they announced the cast.

 

[Angryfantasyfan]

"gritty, grounded"

 

[Zarex]

"gritty, grounded"

That's the one.

 

[C. Lee]

When they started announcing the cast....that's when it was obvious this wouldn't be an adaptation of the comic but instead a "director's vision" of a movie.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

As a good Fantastic Four adaptation, when they announced the cast. They didn't fit their characters at all. It maybe could have still been a good little sci-fi film up to the point that Trank got fired from Star Wars and the true reports (rumors were around since the summer) of the gigantic mess Trank was on set. The last little bit of hope that this could be something worthwhile was gone then. Trank getting fired from Star Wars basically confirmed everything.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

Which was announced first: the cast or "dark and gritty"? Whichever came first is when it lost me.

 

[fantastic fifth]

From the beginning, when the lack of information was all there was.....then casting sealed the deal. I have had no interest ever since....and frankly, nothing that has occurred has been a real big surprise. I think that this has been a pre-calculated, malicious treatment of this property for whatever reason and in the midst of the fray - the only comic book I've ever collected since I was like 7 years old was cancelled. I am probably what you would call an FF 'super-fan' and for me to NOT go see this in theatres or have any excitement throughout this process speaks volumes.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I lost hope around the review embargo. I knew this was not going to be the Fantastic Four but I thought it was going to pull an X-Men First Class where it was widely different from the comics but a good movie. I also still legit think the trailers look promising and I was intrigued at the idea of a body horror sci fi superhero film even if it undeservedly had the FF brand stamped on it. But so many big budget crap movies have come out and none of them had review embargoes so that was a huge warning sign. The embargo news also made me look closer at the behind the scenes stories of this film and I realized that there was no hope for this movie.

 

[CTFFFan]

I am a huge FF fan, comic book series always has been my favorite book (started reading around issue 206 of the original. The storyline was the FF (sans Johnny) went to the Skrull world and were hit with an aging ray that would kill them in 3 days. Been reading ever since until the decision to cancel earlier this year. Now I'm left with Spiderman as the only mag that really excites me now. My expectations have always been low for this movie with all the stuff surrounding it. I will go see it but I'm not expecting a lot.

 

[doink]

I lost hope when the "gritty, grounded" concept was revealed and the rumors of crazy production problems started.

 

[kaijunexus]

I never had it.

I've always championed the return of all Marvel properties back to Marvel Studios, and therefore never had any hope for the success of any Fox films (or Sony films before the Marvel deal).

 

[goh78]

"This will definitely be a more realistic, a more gritty, grounded telling of the 'Fantastic Four' and no matter what people think about the cast."

There is no other comic property more wrong for "real, gritty, or grounded". Not one.