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thehefnerOh no. God, God no. Please, God, tell me we're not entering the "Batman and Robin" era of Marvel movies. And not with the Fantastic Four. Please. Please, no. Please let this just be a case of shitty advertising.
Because this... this makes baby Jesus cry.
And just in case, just in case you think it looks good, let me remind you a little something. The Fantastic Four are no superhero team. They're family. A real FF film should be character first, plot second, and special effects third. In that order. In fact, they already made a great FF movie. It was just called THE INCREDIBLES (imagine Pixar's masterpiece with more pathos and family in-fighting, that's the FF all the way.)
Doctor Doom is not a superpowered businessman with metal skin. He's a tyrannical monarch of a small european country who's so vain, he wears a whole suit of armor to cover up a tiny scar on his face. Corny? In a sense, yes. But in another sense, it's mythology, people. That's the thing that these people who overthink superheros just don't get. Mythology. Suspension of disbelief. At the end of the day, you're just not gonna get a plausible explanation as to how a man can fly. He gets his powers from the yellow sun, you accept it. Gamma radiation turns a guy into a monster. You don't need to know anything else. And above all else (and this is what the X-Men and especially Spider-Man movies got, as well as Incredibles) it's not about the costume, it's about the people behind the masks.
Gahhh. I want to punch something, but I'm afraid my fist will shatter because I have no heat in my dorm room.
Curse you, Richards!
Because this... this makes baby Jesus cry.
And just in case, just in case you think it looks good, let me remind you a little something. The Fantastic Four are no superhero team. They're family. A real FF film should be character first, plot second, and special effects third. In that order. In fact, they already made a great FF movie. It was just called THE INCREDIBLES (imagine Pixar's masterpiece with more pathos and family in-fighting, that's the FF all the way.)
Doctor Doom is not a superpowered businessman with metal skin. He's a tyrannical monarch of a small european country who's so vain, he wears a whole suit of armor to cover up a tiny scar on his face. Corny? In a sense, yes. But in another sense, it's mythology, people. That's the thing that these people who overthink superheros just don't get. Mythology. Suspension of disbelief. At the end of the day, you're just not gonna get a plausible explanation as to how a man can fly. He gets his powers from the yellow sun, you accept it. Gamma radiation turns a guy into a monster. You don't need to know anything else. And above all else (and this is what the X-Men and especially Spider-Man movies got, as well as Incredibles) it's not about the costume, it's about the people behind the masks.
Gahhh. I want to punch something, but I'm afraid my fist will shatter because I have no heat in my dorm room.
Curse you, Richards!
