Fantastic Four (2005)

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Re: The Fantastic Four

Well it was farily silly - but no sillier than the early FF comics, really, and fun. Several plot gaps and oddities, and a rather mixed cast as far as acting ability goes, but a fun popcorn movie. Now that they've got the whole origin bit out of the way, the next one should be interesting.

 

[kyektulu]

Re: The Fantastic Four

Going to watch this tonight will let you know how good it is then! You all are giving it pretty good ratings so I hope I enjoy!
xxxkyexxx

 

[Green]

Re: The Fantastic Four

Well I'll be the first to say how bad it is. Very. Very, very bad.

Bad directing, bad script, the two main characters (Invisible and Fantastic) are boring, the villain is great until he gets in costume, at which point he goes DOOOOOOWNHILL and the rest of it was just lame.

So, yeah. 2 curiously yellow stars out of 5.

EDIT - I suppose I should say, the other two of the 4 were alright. But they were overwhelmed by the badness (pre-80s sense of the word) of the main two.

 

[lazygun]

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Question please,anyone?..was there "Clobberin' Time!"?.

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

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Yes, there was!

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

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Question please,anyone?..was there "Clobberin' Time!"?.

It happened twice - although only said once by Ben Grimm himself

Saw this last night. Like Knivesout said, too many plot holes. I found myself to often being yanked out of the movie by terrible and hackneyed dialogue.
Didn't think having Doom involved in the accident helped either - I can see why they did it (to cram in more set pieces, because his true origin story is quite elaborate & would have been time-consuming to bring to screen), but it wasn't done very well.
Overall I think the problems with the film boiled down to two main points:
1) It rushed itself in the wrong places and slowed down in the wrong places - did anybody else find the whole bridge sequence completely unnecessary?
2) It didn't know whether it wanted to be a Comedy or not. There were too many "comic" moments in the film. Rather than relieve the tension it just made the film farcical as whenever they tried to inject drama or pathos into a moment, every 5 minutes there would be another (usually bad) joke.

I suppose it looks like I hated the movie - I didn't.
It was ok, it just wasn't Fantastic

 

[Dave]

I read that this was overhyped rubbish, but I make my own decisions and I thought it was pretty good. If you have to make a choice, see 'War of the Worlds', but if you want a superheroes coming to terms with their new powers and defending the world from their evil ex-boss, it will not disappoint you. Obviously, that plot is not very original, but it is based on a Marvel comic, not Charles Dickens.

There is an accident and a space based experiment results in five people being changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing. Together, they use their unique powers as the Fantastic Four to foil the evil plans of their former boss Victor Von Doom, calling himself Doctor Doom, with great metalic strength, and who is able to draw and release electric charges.

 

[lucifer_principle]

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Flame On!

 

[lucifer_principle]

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It was ok, it just wasn't Fantastic

My reply when I finally meet God about my life

 

[kyektulu]

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I saw this on wednesday and it id a great film I reccomend it.
I havnt read the comics unfortunetly so cannot comment on its likeness to the origanal writings.
My fave bits are when torch is winding up the thing
xxxkyexxx

 

[Alysheba]

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I finally got to see this today. And like many here I found it to be just, okay. It wasn't great, but it did have it's moments. As much as I like Ioan Gruffudd, I must say, his character was the most boring. Jessica Alba is pretty to look at in here but that is about it. IMO the banter between Grimm and Torch made some of this movie bearable. Maybe I'm being unfair because I'm comparing it to X-Men and Spider-man, which IMO were two of the best comic to screen adaptations, but I guess I was expecting more than I got.

 

[ray gower]

Fantastic Four is and always has been aimed at a younger audience, as such it has always been more upbeat and entertaining than say Batman. This in mind, the film is a very neat prase of the Marvel comic.

Plenty of small gags to bolster the audience in what would be an otherwise stodgy story, enough action to keep the mind off things too. So not Batman or X-Men, but a really entertaining film!

In common with the lower standards of drawing in Marvel, there does appear to be a lot of mistakes in the film. IMDB lists a full dozen- Can't say I noticed, but I wasn't looking