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Post by ThatGuy on Jun 28, 2020 22:24:57 GMT
So I noticed that this is on Disney+. Just gonna say it. It's not that bad. Miles better than Dark Phoenix.* I actually watched it all the way through in one sitting. One of problems that I had is that they went the direction of government weapons and not adventurers. Another is that Reed should have been kinda like Cade in the Transformers movies in that he randomly invents things while he was growing up. They made him smart, but it was localized to the teleporter. Kinda like if something was giving him the knowledge so they could escape the Negative Zone.
In a way, I'd rather see the Trank Cut of this movie way more than the Snyder Cut.*
*Not trying to gibe. Just giving a comparing opinion.
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Post by hobowar on Jun 28, 2020 22:32:45 GMT
I have this on Blu-Ray because I'm stupid. 😔
I enjoyed it in the cinema for some reason.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 28, 2020 23:05:58 GMT
It’s a pretty dull and amateurishly put together film. When I first saw the Rotten Tomatoes score, I thought that the critics must’ve been overreacting. Surely it couldn’t be much worse than the Tim Story films? Lo and behold, it was pretty bad. It’s probably the emptiest I’ve ever felt after watching a superhero movie, but I haven’t seen it since it was still in theaters, so I don’t know how I’d react to it on a new viewing.
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Post by DarkManX on Jun 28, 2020 23:23:14 GMT
It sucked. It's pointlessly dark and gritty and the story was butchered by the studio. I would like to see the Trank cut, but I'm not sure how much it would improve on the film.
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Post by bud47 on Jun 28, 2020 23:38:50 GMT
It's not that bad as long as you don't think of it as a Fantastic Four film. It's still a butchered studio film though. Just call it something else and give all of the characters different names. As an adaptation, it's horrible. A complete misunderstanding of the source material.
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Post by blockbusted on Jun 29, 2020 1:15:39 GMT
I personally found it to be THE worst big-budget film of all time. Seriously, I've never seen a film with $100 million+ budget and didn't have a single redeeming quality whatsoever!
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Post by hobowar on Jun 29, 2020 4:42:48 GMT
I personally found it to be THE worst big-budget film of all time. Seriously, I've never seen a film with $100 million+ budget and didn't have a single redeeming quality whatsoever! There's a lot of unintentional comedy (Sue's wig). At least that's something.  |
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Post by scabab on Jun 29, 2020 6:07:16 GMT
It made the two earlier movies look like masterpieces in comparison.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2020 8:45:00 GMT
I thought it was ok. There is no Trank Cut apparently
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Post by ThatGuy on Jun 29, 2020 15:11:37 GMT
It's not that bad as long as you don't think of it as a Fantastic Four film. It's still a butchered studio film though. Just call it something else and give all of the characters different names. As an adaptation, it's horrible. A complete misunderstanding of the source material. I think this is what happened. My mind might have went away from what the movie was supposed to be. I might have hated it if my mind kept it to being a F4 movie. But since they only had similar names, I saw it as like a new IP Alien-type sci-fi/horror movie.
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Post by ThatGuy on Jun 29, 2020 15:15:03 GMT
I thought it was ok. There is no Trank Cut apparently That's a shame. I liked Chronicle. With this being the 1st of a series, I don't have a base for what the movie could be like Justice League. |
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Post by ThatGuy on Jun 29, 2020 15:17:17 GMT
It made the two earlier movies look like masterpieces in comparison. My expectations must have been really low on this one. lol |
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Post by James on Jun 29, 2020 18:04:54 GMT
It’s pretty shitty. The time jump is the stupidest decision they made in this movie.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 29, 2020 18:13:41 GMT
The nicest thing I'll say about it, is that it's short. So it didn't waste too much of my time.
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Post by ThatGuy on Jun 29, 2020 18:45:19 GMT
It’s pretty shitty. The time jump is the stupidest decision they made in this movie. I understand it, though. It takes out a training montage. But, at the same time, they show them training like they recently started training. |
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Post by blockbusted on Jun 30, 2020 6:58:02 GMT
I personally found it to be THE worst big-budget film of all time. Seriously, I've never seen a film with $100 million+ budget and didn't have a single redeeming quality whatsoever! There's a lot of unintentional comedy (Sue's wig). At least that's something. I wish I could, but the film was too dreary to laugh at.  |
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Post by Archelaus on Jun 30, 2020 20:55:52 GMT
I actually liked Dark Phoenix way better than Fantastic Four (2015). I agree with most of everyone's thoughts on it, but one redeeming quality was the first half which started out pretty promising. It is the second half that tanks the film to which it never recovers. I even felt they ruined Doctor Doom more so than in the Tim Story duology.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 2:14:56 GMT
Never seen it.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jul 8, 2020 15:29:43 GMT
I knew Fant4stic would be vindicated one day.
I'll go one step further than saying that the film isn't bad. There are genuinely great aspects of the film, including Tranks, nihilistic take on Doctor Doom. The third act is what sinks it for me. It was devised (and probably written) by a studio executive.
Spectacular miscalculations on audiences' tolerance for diversity and behind-the-scenes turmoil are what Fant4stic will always be remembered for, unfortunately.
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Post by ThatGuy on Jul 11, 2020 13:13:17 GMT
Looks like they are slowly adding in the X-men movies. But out of order. Days of Future Past is up. Even though I have it on DVD, I’d rather have X-men first.
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