This movie really isn't that terrible, but considering the hyper, the budget, the resources, and the fact that Marvel has been putting out such great movies lately, it seems a lot worse than it is.
First the good things... I actually thought the story was re-told in a pretty cool way at it's most basic form. The idea of traveling to another dimension, instead of out into space, I think could work very well. It leaves a lot of possibilities, but unfortunately most of these were not explored.
The movie started off pretty well. In fact, for the first half of the movie, I thought maybe it was going to be a lot better than people let on.
A lot of people on here are complaining about the cast, but I think they were okay, just poorly directed. Most of them have proved themselves to be good actors in other films. I heard Trank was telling them on set to be as flat as possibly with all their deliveries and it shows.
I'm glad to hear that they are moving forward with FF2, because I don't think there is anything about this world that has been created that is inherently bad. The movie had lots of problems, but mostly that it felt incomplete, like it was cut short and scenes were missing along the way. This shouldn't really stop the next movie from being good.
I heard stuff was cut from the movie, so I'm not really sure what the script looked like, if maybe things were cut afterward that make the story seem non-sensible, but the script as it is in the movie, is pretty bad. The characters aren't properly developed and it really seems like a bunch of random pages got deleted throughout the film, but they continued using it anyway.
As far as the whole "dark, gritty" thing, I think it kind of works, but I'm not sure if this is the best superhero story for that. I feel like Fantastic Four is one of the more far-fetched superhero stories. I could buy the idea that they go to space (or another dimension) and come back with some sort of mutation. Chances are it would be negative of course, like some sort of cancer, but for the sake of entertainment, I could but the fact that cosmic radiation causes a beneficial mutation. But 5 completely different, random, and really cool mutations that are all completely different from one another?? Yeah right. If anything, they would all have the same or at least similar powers. That being said, this doesn't seem like the type of story that really needs to be taken super seriously. That's why I rather like the fact that Avengers and most of the other MCU movies have so much humor. Captain America and Iron Man have much more believable origin stories than Fantastic Four, so it seems silly to me to pick this one to make super serious, but had the plot holes been filled in and the movie been directed better, it could have worked.
First the good things... I actually thought the story was re-told in a pretty cool way at it's most basic form. The idea of traveling to another dimension, instead of out into space, I think could work very well. It leaves a lot of possibilities, but unfortunately most of these were not explored.
The movie started off pretty well. In fact, for the first half of the movie, I thought maybe it was going to be a lot better than people let on.
A lot of people on here are complaining about the cast, but I think they were okay, just poorly directed. Most of them have proved themselves to be good actors in other films. I heard Trank was telling them on set to be as flat as possibly with all their deliveries and it shows.
I'm glad to hear that they are moving forward with FF2, because I don't think there is anything about this world that has been created that is inherently bad. The movie had lots of problems, but mostly that it felt incomplete, like it was cut short and scenes were missing along the way. This shouldn't really stop the next movie from being good.
I heard stuff was cut from the movie, so I'm not really sure what the script looked like, if maybe things were cut afterward that make the story seem non-sensible, but the script as it is in the movie, is pretty bad. The characters aren't properly developed and it really seems like a bunch of random pages got deleted throughout the film, but they continued using it anyway.
As far as the whole "dark, gritty" thing, I think it kind of works, but I'm not sure if this is the best superhero story for that. I feel like Fantastic Four is one of the more far-fetched superhero stories. I could buy the idea that they go to space (or another dimension) and come back with some sort of mutation. Chances are it would be negative of course, like some sort of cancer, but for the sake of entertainment, I could but the fact that cosmic radiation causes a beneficial mutation. But 5 completely different, random, and really cool mutations that are all completely different from one another?? Yeah right. If anything, they would all have the same or at least similar powers. That being said, this doesn't seem like the type of story that really needs to be taken super seriously. That's why I rather like the fact that Avengers and most of the other MCU movies have so much humor. Captain America and Iron Man have much more believable origin stories than Fantastic Four, so it seems silly to me to pick this one to make super serious, but had the plot holes been filled in and the movie been directed better, it could have worked.