Fantastic Four...
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanSo last night was movie night again, on account of it being Orange Wednesday, and all that hoo-ha. We’re running out of movies we want to see; make that have run out, at least for the next couple of months.
Anyway, we went to see The Fantastic Four. Now I was prepared for the movie to be pants, so I adjusted my expectations downwards in anticipation: the reviews have been uniformly poor, and the fact that the producers kept dragging it back into post production for tweaks never bodes well. So what was it like?
Well, I have seen Swiss cheese with fewer holes than the plot. I think there was a plot… The producers had changed the origin story just enough to rob Victor von Doom of a convincing reason to hate Reed Richards, and the collapse of Doom’s business empire was glossed over to the extent that it was irrelevant, despite providing the nearest there was to motivation in the prime baddie. Equally, the FF’s financial problems were mentioned only insofar as it provided them with a reason to go to Victor von Doom in the first place. The rest of the tinkering was pointless, but didn’t make a real difference.
Two action sequences are not enough when you are making a superhero movie, especially when you are dispensing with plot. The build up was slow, the editing clumsy, the end abrupt. There was some reasonable characterisation, but it was not maintained: imagine an extended pop video, but without the music.
Special effects? They ran the whole gamut from ordinary to average.
Overall impressions?
Wait five years for terrestrial TV to pick it up for the appropriate Saturday night, or bank holiday blockbuster slot. Note the time and channel, and watch another channel instead.
Anyway, we went to see The Fantastic Four. Now I was prepared for the movie to be pants, so I adjusted my expectations downwards in anticipation: the reviews have been uniformly poor, and the fact that the producers kept dragging it back into post production for tweaks never bodes well. So what was it like?
Well, I have seen Swiss cheese with fewer holes than the plot. I think there was a plot… The producers had changed the origin story just enough to rob Victor von Doom of a convincing reason to hate Reed Richards, and the collapse of Doom’s business empire was glossed over to the extent that it was irrelevant, despite providing the nearest there was to motivation in the prime baddie. Equally, the FF’s financial problems were mentioned only insofar as it provided them with a reason to go to Victor von Doom in the first place. The rest of the tinkering was pointless, but didn’t make a real difference.
Two action sequences are not enough when you are making a superhero movie, especially when you are dispensing with plot. The build up was slow, the editing clumsy, the end abrupt. There was some reasonable characterisation, but it was not maintained: imagine an extended pop video, but without the music.
Special effects? They ran the whole gamut from ordinary to average.
Overall impressions?
Wait five years for terrestrial TV to pick it up for the appropriate Saturday night, or bank holiday blockbuster slot. Note the time and channel, and watch another channel instead.
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Date: 2005-08-04 03:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-04 11:41 pm (UTC)DT and I watched a grainy download of the unreleased 1994 'movie'. The plot was better, even if the realisation was crap.
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Date: 2005-08-04 04:19 pm (UTC)My favourite review so far was that of my
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Date: 2005-08-05 01:11 pm (UTC)Still to see Batman and Sin City......But tomorrow is Donnie Darko night !