Fantastic Four movie: Dr. Doom announced!

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Yeah, that's the story that's put out after the fact. I clearly remember reading in the various sci-fi movie mags at the time a lot of pre-hype nearly equivalent to what we see nowadays. Interviews with the producer, "behind the scenes shots"--the works. I think it's easier (and less embarrassing!) to say after the fact that it was never intended to be a "real" movie.

But then, that's just my personal paranoid conspiracy theory with absolutely no substantiation whatsoever.

I too remember reading a lot about it in Starlog. It wasn't being hyped as a joke flick at the time, even if we should have figured it was based on the low budget and who was directing it. Man that movie made Batman and Robin seem like The Godfather.

The Horror! I feel like someone in an HP Lovecraft story after watching that. My sanity is low.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

So far Chiklis is the only name I've heard that made me go "hellzyeah".

What about Jessica Alba donning the blue spandex to be Sue Storm?

 

[Ranger REG]

Sweet!

Even Sweeter? Jessica Alba undonning the spandex.

OBTW, she'll be playing a stripper in another comic book adaptation, Sin City (with Bruce Willis).

 

[Klaus]

Jessica Alba = Good!

BTW, check Ain't It Cool News's page with pictures of the movie panels at Comic Con. There's a picture that's described as "the air-conditioning seemed too strong for Ms. Alba".

Thank me later.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Jessica Alba = Good!

BTW, check Ain't It Cool News's page with pictures of the movie panels at Comic Con. There's a picture that's described as "the air-conditioning seemed too strong for Ms. Alba".

Thank me later.

I couldn't find it.

 

[Hand of Vecna]

While I do indeed find Jessica Alba incredibly attractive, I have trouble seeing her as Sue. Sue's always been drawn as very..... Caucasian, which Alba is not.

 

[Ei]

So, which of the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom represent in the Chinese elements?

Well, there is the man-thing, which is a basically a shambling mount, so he's plant

The thing and the human torch is of course earth and fire, Mr. fantastic is water, and dr.Doom is metal.

The only one who doesn’t fit is sue, since in Chinese element there is no air, wind is often associate with divine strength and life force. So it is sort like the positive/negative energy of the DnD. It is introduced from India from Buddhism I believe.

It is also interesting to note that Wind and Water often goes together and from it achieve harmony.

It fits a lot better than the Japanese elements, since I really don't see Doom as void, and Man-Thing just got left out.

Of course, it is all probably just bunch of hogwash and the comic writers probably just randomly sticked those characters together.

 

[Klaus]

I couldn't find it.

Try this:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18035

 

[Thotas]

With Victor von Doom, the point is arrogance. In the comics, conveying his arrogance is done by having him rant and rave in ways that work in a static picture but don't work well on film. But for verisimilitude on the character, you have to lean that way. The solution is that Doom still gets to rant, but no more raving is allowed. In fact, since comics-Doom is portrayed as an aristocrat, movie-Doom needs to take the dismissive snob route.

The great thing about him is that so many of our favorite cliche villian bits that we love while know they're are lame are actually appropriate for Doom. For example, we all roll our eyes when BBEG tells our hero all about his evil plan in exquisite detail. But with Doom, at least when he's dealing with Mr. Fantastic, has a reason for doing this. His inflated ego is threatened by one thing and one thing only: the knowledge that Reed Richards may actually match him for brilliance. By giving Richards the info, he's saying it doesn't matter if he has it -- but even more, it's no fun to best Mr. Fantastic if Reed doesn't appreciate how it's done. And Doom wants his genius fully appreciated, the irony being that the only person who could do this is seen as a threat because of it.

Gotta love Doom, he's such a mess.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

With Victor von Doom, the point is arrogance. In the comics, conveying his arrogance is done by having him rant and rave in ways that work in a static picture but don't work well on film. But for verisimilitude on the character, you have to lean that way. The solution is that Doom still gets to rant, but no more raving is allowed. In fact, since comics-Doom is portrayed as an aristocrat, movie-Doom needs to take the dismissive snob route.

The great thing about him is that so many of our favorite cliche villian bits that we love while know they're are lame are actually appropriate for Doom. For example, we all roll our eyes when BBEG tells our hero all about his evil plan in exquisite detail. But with Doom, at least when he's dealing with Mr. Fantastic, has a reason for doing this. His inflated ego is threatened by one thing and one thing only: the knowledge that Reed Richards may actually match him for brilliance. By giving Richards the info, he's saying it doesn't matter if he has it -- but even more, it's no fun to best Mr. Fantastic if Reed doesn't appreciate how it's done. And Doom wants his genius fully appreciated, the irony being that the only person who could do this is seen as a threat because of it.

Gotta love Doom, he's such a mess.

Yep. Doom wants the hero in the death trap to admit, "Damn Doom! Your trap was brilliant and you got me, bravo old man *golf clap*!". With Richards it's even more pronounced. He must prove he is smarter than Richards. He must prove he is the smartest man alive and destroying the main challanger in the brains department is the only way to really prove that.

However...can a man who loves his mommy as much as Doom does really be that bad? I mean he was trying to storm the shores of Hell to save her soul before he even finished college!