fantastic four

[Desdichado]

Not the look I'm objecting to at all. It's the character's nature and background, both of which are changed drastically for the movie. The guy in the movie may look like the Dr. Doom of the comics, but he's not the same character by any stretch of the imagination.

He was also changed substantially for the Ultimate Fantastic Four, as I understand it, and in similar ways. Granted, I haven't read UFF (only heard vague reports of it) and I'm not up on spoilers of Doom's origin in the movie, but I still don't see what the big deal is.

 

[Desdichado]

I'll agree about DOOM. Changing to "Space Marine fights mutated people" just falls flat compared to "Space Marine fights Demons from a Gate to Hell."

It worked for Event Horizon, why not this?

No kidding. Not only that, the former has been done many times in the movies; the original DOOM story is at least a relatively open field still, in terms of movies, anyway.

 

[Ranger REG]

LXG was good but left me feeling FXed out.

I hope there will be a LXG sequel in the future, or a TV series.

As for the Fantastic Four, I hope they take their cue from their early comic book history. Ben Grimm should feel depressed since he is the only one of the four not being able to return to his original human form. That and the fact he's still mutating and not well-chiseled (the more recognizable form).

 

[Flyspeck23]

For someone with a Ben Grimm avatar, you sure seem to have missed the boat on what his character was like, or we're reading completely different FF issues!

Hey, I'm not that old. I wasn't even planned when the Thing was constantly depressed

But you're right: for the first movie it's only fitting to portrait the character that way (and probably the second one, too - but I still have my doubts that that'll ever happen...).

Besides, I liked the orc shaman a lot better!

Yes, but I grew tired of it. And while reading Earth X, one panel with the Thing just screamed "Avatar!". I'll spare you the long version of the story

 

[freebfrost]

So why didn't it do well in the box office?

Yup, it only grossed $245,284,946 worldwide.

Didn't do well = 1/4 of a billion dollars.

Interesting.

While it may not have made the sheer numbers that Spiderman did, it was a profitable movie.

 

[Aristotle]

Jessica Alba is unquestionably hot, but she feels too teen/early-twenties to me. Sue Richards has always come off, to me (and I'm hardly a huge FF fan), as a late-twenties/early-thirties mature and intelligent woman who happens to be attractive. I just don't think Jessica Alba has the chops to pull of that sort of character.

I'm excited to see more comics coming to the big screen, but the casting on this one seems wrong to me in a few places. Maybe I perceive the characters wrong. Maybe the acress will surprise me. I just don't think I'm going to gt into this one.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Yup, it only grossed $245,284,946 worldwide.

Didn't do well = 1/4 of a billion dollars.

Interesting.

While it may not have made the sheer numbers that Spiderman did, it was a profitable movie.

But 135,000,000 to make plus another 35,000,000 to market: total cost 165,000,000 so only 80,000,000 profit, mmmmmm, so 0.50 or so cents on the dollar profit (is that right), not bad.

The interesting number was Opening Weekend: $62,128,420
(3,660 theaters, $16,974 average)
% of Total Gross: 47.0%