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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stevelabny" data-source="post: 2398850" data-attributes="member: 9298">Hmm.Well it wasn't as bad as everything else so far this summer.The sfx were bad. What DID they spend their money on? Some scenes were Spidey 1 / Xmen 1 bad. Some were worse. Jessica Alba was bad. She really was just there for T & A and brought nothing to the table.Dr. Doom was awful. I thought he was weak before the armor, and afterwards he was the lamest villain of all time. It really felt like the filmmakers couldnt decide how "comic book" they wanted to go with him. His "armor" is from the same cosmic storm, but the mask was a trophy given to him by the people of Latveria? The writing for the character was all over the place. There was even one line of dialogue in the armor that had some sort of metallic reverberation, but the others didn't. Plus, they forgot to have a "Doom does something evil and shows off his powers" scene before the final fight. GAH. Mr. Fantastic was ok. I wouldve liked a little more genius-dialogue, but whatever. He was close enough to be passable.The Alicia Masters thing was completely shoe-horned into the movie. Beyond wonky. And we didn't even get to see any of her sculptures? Why not just save her for the sequel? Probably because the whole movie was done as generic and mainstream as you could. From some obvious dialogue, to the most obvious directing and framing , the whole thing reeked a little too much of "my first action movie"BUT Johnny and Ben were near perfect. Thing looked tons better on screen than in the stills, and the flame effects were pretty sweet. And not only were the both good individually, they were great together. That WAS johnny and ben fighting with each other on screen the sane way it WAS wolverine saying his claws hurt "every time".  The scenes with these two made sure I kept a smile on my face through the entire movie, even the kinda weak ending. I coulda done with TWO x-games scenes, but thats why I said near-perfect.So overall, while the movie is far from great, it at least had the FUN that the other movies this year were missing. I would give it a 6.5 if I could, but I gave it a 7 because tonight I'm actually in a GOOD mood after seeing a movie.</blockquote>

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