Its actually available….
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tylerrabbit — 12 years ago(May 09, 2013 12:03 AM)
In an issue of WIRED in the early 90s there was an article called "Make Movie Visual Effects in Your Basement" about VFX legends Scott and Minky Billups who were doing the VFX for this flick single handledly in their basement. I found it incredibly inspiring and decided to go into low budget indy CGI myself.
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helderuto — 12 years ago(December 06, 2013 05:59 AM)
The first Jurassic Park came out in 1993 and the cgi in that was amazing (although they did have more money to spend!) so you can't really use that as an excuse. the effects were just naff, period.
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Newz_Dawg — 19 years ago(January 12, 2007 08:36 AM)
You can see this film in its entirety (though in 9 segments of 9:59 each) at Youtube.com. Simply enter (as written here)
Roger Corman Fantastic Four
in the search and knock yourself out. It's mental clobberin' time! As for me, I commented there thusly (unabridged version below):
It has everything you would expect from a superhero film produced by B-movie master Roger Corman, the man who introduced moviegoers to man-eating talking plants, psychotic beatnick artists, Lee Van Cleef vs. a Space Carrot Alien, and Jack Nicholson. It was made to be enjoyed with popcorn, Goobers, and Coca-Cola, and not taken seriously. Cheesy good fun from the celluloid cheese-meister that views the way a 60s Fantastic Four comic reads. And really, the Thing looks pretty good, more formidable than the new version's Thing, who looks more like a steroid-enhanced burn victim. Three stars.
And so it goes. It's worth viewing by any comic devotee for its sheer curiosity value.
"I hate people I don't like."
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DaveOctopus — 19 years ago(February 09, 2007 02:31 PM)
It's funny that they say never released, but I remember watching it when I was young and seeing it in many video stores, unless there all buying bootlegs too lol. I remembered it being cheesy but it's pretty vague to me now. Probably just as good as the new one would be if they didn't have todays effects.
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gorebagkiller — 18 years ago(June 18, 2007 03:19 PM)
theres no way you have seen it back then davehaddad. The leaked copy of it was not available until 1997, that was when it first started turning up and the chances a video store actually renting out a bootleg copy of a purposefully unreleased film is not possible. No video store owner would risk his lively hood because it was already known to be a bootleg publicly and if it came back to the video store they would have been sued for millions. Actually, if thatdid happen, then maybe they could have afforded to release the film. It could have sold well, little kids were superhero crazy then.
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DaveOctopus — 17 years ago(June 08, 2008 01:06 AM)
All I can tell ya is that I watched it a long time ago on VHS, rented from the video store, way before the DVD renting days, they had some laser disks at the time. So maybe it wasn't 94 but I know it wasn't 98 I moved from there in 97 so I don't even care anyways its a movie.
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Newz_Dawg — 19 years ago(April 04, 2007 11:47 AM)
What really ticks me is that Stan Lee lavished huge praise for the very silly Japanese
Spider-Man
TV show, with its giant monsters and robots, and Spider-Man telepathically communicating with his mentor who has become a spider, while dissing the Corman-produced
Fantastic Four
. Cheese is cheese, no matter what nation it comes from. Looks like Stan the Man, who's ego has outgrown Jim Shooter's, needs to meet Doc Samson for a few sessions.
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Astrolupine — 18 years ago(December 13, 2007 02:19 PM)
I bought a copy at a comic con 3 years agofor $20. Yes, you heard that right, but that was the price of all the bootleg DVDs there being sold, and I was desperate to see this film in all its cheesy glory. (The other bootlegs I have are Batman: Dead End, Star Wars Holiday Special and Harvey Birdman Season 1) I've watched it a couple of times and all I can say that's its decent, with a good-looking Thing, Rebecca Stabb as Sue and a Doom that resembles the comic version better than Julian McMahon did.
There's so much pressure to like monkeys. -
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SteveResin — 18 years ago(January 16, 2008 05:16 PM)
A mate gave me a copy on dvd and it's appalling lmao. View it as a comedy and you may enjoy it, but don't expect to take it seriously. The "special" (and I use the term at it's loosest) effects are well. I don't know if I can comment on them coz I couldn't spot any. And the Thing! Looked like a Tortoise with a hangover. Funniest film I've ever seen.
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ZincChandler — 17 years ago(June 02, 2008 09:14 AM)
i would LOVE to get my hands on this gem. have tried to see it before, but sources are slim. i see lots of copies on eBay, but none of them specify that its the 1994 version and honestly, i dont want to own the 2005 version.
i have renewed interest in this one after seeing Captain America last night. wow. they need to make superhero movies like these ones again!!!
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junior-96 — 17 years ago(November 24, 2008 05:34 PM)