How did it get 4.3?
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B_Light — 9 years ago(August 05, 2016 12:53 AM)
I like it because it could have been a perfect set up to a potentially good franchise. But no one gave it a chance so, not surprised we won't get a sequel.
A movie doesn't need wall to wall action people. A superhero movie with a gasp SET UP? WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO!!??!??!? -
zaphod08 — 9 years ago(August 05, 2016 09:18 AM)
Define no one gave it a chance. I've been a fan of the Fantastic Four since 1967. The characters were nothing like their four color counterparts. The story was severely lacking. There was no second act. There was a truncated third act with 10 minutes of action and a villain with no motivation. Despite my reservations, I went to see it at the theater, hoping I would like it. But to paraphrase Arrow, "You failed this audience."
In the kingdom of the blind, you're the village idiot. -
jad1986 — 9 years ago(August 05, 2016 04:21 PM)
That's a problem with some franchise starters. They want to just set up, but they don't tell a good story on their own.
Take a look at what Marvel did with the first
Iron Man
movie. It started the MCU, but it also works fine as a standalone piece. There's teases for things to come and enough groundwork for a sequel, but the story it tells is wrapped up by movie's end. You could watch it and never watch another MCU movie and still have a movie with good set up AND a good story.
If you went to a restaurant that advertised a good meal and all they gave you were appetizers, then when you asked about the entree you were told you weren't getting it because they didn't have it yet, you wouldn't go home satisfied. In that case, you might actually want your money back and feel burned about wasting your time eating there. Oh, but you had those appetizers, so you can't say you didn't get anything.
Fant4stic
is like getting the appetizers, then suddenly being given a hastily made dessert that doesn't even taste that good.
Films are stories, a story needs to satisfy the audience like a good meal would satisfy someone going out for dinner. You can't expect people to come back if they weren't satisfied the first time.
What we see and what we seem are but a dream. A dream within a dream. -
DeadpoolU88 — 9 years ago(August 20, 2016 10:15 AM)
I give a 5.
It wasn't entirely bad. We get good performances from the Fantastic Four and Franklin Richards, the special effects are a lot better than people say they are and the body horror was brilliant.
But the movie's script was terrible. The childhood scenes were unnecessary, the origin story was badly done and Doctor Doom was a generic doomsday villain who only showed up during the last twenty minutes. -
zaphod08 — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 10:49 AM)
Before I start, this isn't meant to be an attack, but I don't remember a single beautiful shot. To my recollection, this film was dreary from beginning to the end.
In the kingdom of the blind, you're the village idiot. -
nammage — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 02:09 PM)
I gave it a 5/10. The beginning was good. What I hate is
they keep killing off the villians.
It's not like I'm rooting for the villians, or anything (though in this film the US government seemed more the villian than anyone else) but damn, why do they keep
killing the villians?
. Doctor Doom is a huge component of the Fantastic Four series and he gets, what? 10 minutes of screen time
and then they kill him
. The villains are just as integral as the heroes are.
-Nam
I am on the road less traveled