The biggest problem with Doctor Doom in Tim Story’s two FF movies was that the filmmakers weren’t ambitious enough in using his character. And this, of course, was true of the two FF movies as a whole – they mostly tried to play it very safe, sticking with standard superhero movie tropes while not contributing much new. And the things that were new, such as focusing on the domestic lives and antics of the heroes, didn’t really do much to make the stories fun or exciting. The movies aren’t terrible, just rather underwhelming and unoriginal.
Doom’s character is a good example of the FF movies being too cautious. It seems like the filmmakers are too intimidated or too unimaginative to explore the more complex facets of Doom’s character and personality, which are very rich and fascinating in the source material. Instead, they mostly play it safe by just focusing on Doom’s bare-bones villainy. It’s like they said, “We need a villain in a colorful, spiffy costume to fight against our four heroes and act all evil and power-hungry.” And that’s all. So what we get with Doom is simply a standard villain with a colorful design and not many unique qualities. Basically, he was sort of a quintessential studio-approved villain: safe and marketable. Not much else.
I still enjoy some of Doom’s scenes in the two FF movies, but it’s obvious that the director and the studio were only going for the bare minimum with his character. And that’s obviously disappointing.
Doom’s character is a good example of the FF movies being too cautious. It seems like the filmmakers are too intimidated or too unimaginative to explore the more complex facets of Doom’s character and personality, which are very rich and fascinating in the source material. Instead, they mostly play it safe by just focusing on Doom’s bare-bones villainy. It’s like they said, “We need a villain in a colorful, spiffy costume to fight against our four heroes and act all evil and power-hungry.” And that’s all. So what we get with Doom is simply a standard villain with a colorful design and not many unique qualities. Basically, he was sort of a quintessential studio-approved villain: safe and marketable. Not much else.
I still enjoy some of Doom’s scenes in the two FF movies, but it’s obvious that the director and the studio were only going for the bare minimum with his character. And that’s obviously disappointing.
IIRC, he's been in numerous films since FF and starred on a popular TV show (Nip/Tuck) until 2010. He's a busy actor.
How do you **** up the same villain three times in a row though?
So wrong.
I liked Killian. He was a good villain. Just let was not a fan of him pre-extremis.
