{"id":16080,"date":"2015-08-10T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2015-08-10T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:55:01","slug":"fantastic-four-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/fantastic-four-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m not one of the people who were hoping for \u201cFantastic Four\u201d to be a bad movie, but I\u2019m not surprised it\u2019s a bad movie. FOX has proven to be so embarrassed by Marvel\u2019s original property, that I\u2019m actually surprised \u201cFantastic Four\u201d isn\u2019t simply called \u201cThe Four.\u201d It takes all opportunities to rework the source material, so who\u2019s to say this wasn\u2019t suggested at some point? When you fail to properly adapt source material (that I still say is impossible to adapt in to a good film), you can\u2019t really be surprised when too many cooks feed us \u201cFantastic Four.\u201d It goes without saying that \u201cFantastic Four\u201d is a lousy movie. It\u2019s a movie about four people whose worst enemies are themselves, and face off against a foe that looks like HR Giger\u2019s version of OZ\u2019s the Tin Man.<\/p>\n

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There is no real enemy or villain in \u201cFantastic Four.\u201d In fact there\u2019s not really much of a narrative. It speeds through a lot of character development and important story points in favor of getting to the action, and lacks a real second act. There\u2019s no real point where we see our characters developing their powers and getting accustomed to it. One minute they\u2019re in an accident, and the next we fast forward to where they\u2019re basically masters of their own abilities, already. It\u2019s almost like watching Professor X meeting Jean Grey and Cyclops and then fast forwarding fifty years to where Jean and Cyclops are now middle aged and powerful. It\u2019s everything in between which would have benefitted the film itself. The sad fact about \u201cFantastic Four\u201d is that every character is unlikable. Reed Richards is a wooden protagonist, Sue Storm looks like she\u2019s restraining a yawn, Johnny Storm doesn\u2019t even seem to enjoy being alive, and Ben Grimm post and pre rock man is a drag to be around.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no chemistry, which is shocking considering the foursome of actors cast to play the Fantastic Four are pretty stellar. It takes a special kind of disaster to botch a movie starring four of today\u2019s most talented young actors. I just didn\u2019t care about anyone here, thus the drama that unfolds involving their bodily abilities, and their quest to stop Dr. Doom is tedious. Everything before the inevitable rise of Doom is also monotonous and painfully dull. It took everything within me to keep from falling asleep during the first half of the rather incomplete and idiotic narrative. Seriously, Dr. Doom the mad genius uses boulders to fight The Thing! Reed Richard is building a teleportation device because\u2026 he can? And rather than hire skilled researchers, the government hires four teenagers to tackle these important operations because\u2026 nepotism? Dr. Doom becomes evil because he\u2019s jealous? Angry? Vengeful? Is he controlled by Planet Zero\u2019s elements? What\u2019s the deal?<\/p>\n

Why does he want to destroy the world suddenly? Why does he have the power to blow up heads and why doesn\u2019t he ever use them on the fantastic four? Why doesn\u2019t the Thing have a containment suit? Why don\u2019t they ever give Dr. Doom a containment suit? Why doesn\u2019t the government utilize the green ooze to transform other soldiers in to monsters and super beings? What is the green ooze? What is Planet Zero? How do the containment suits work again? There\u2019s just so many story elements and macguffins thrown at us in ninety minutes and nothing ever comes full circle to explain or even resolve. It\u2019s almost like this is just here to prop up storylines for a real movie that will act as the sequel. The sad thing is I\u2019m not sure I want to see a sequel. Somewhere deep down beneath this tonally confused, incomplete nonsense there\u2019s a great movie. As for this studio tinkered madness, it\u2019s a really bad example of what happens when you don\u2019t understand the source material and don\u2019t care about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not one of the people who were hoping for \u201cFantastic Four\u201d to be a bad movie, but I\u2019m not surprised it\u2019s a bad movie. FOX has proven to be so embarrassed by Marvel\u2019s original property, that I\u2019m actually surprised \u201cFantastic Four\u201d isn\u2019t simply called \u201cThe Four.\u201d It takes all opportunities to rework the source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[58,64,71,302,338,349,635,906,1087],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-packed-april","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-drama","tag-f","tag-fantasy","tag-marvel-comics","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16082,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions\/16082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}