Well, I haven't seen it yet, either but there are already reveiws
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Fantastic Four (2005)
Preview Your Review
Overall Grade: B-
Story: C
Acting: A
Direction: A
Visuals: A-
Is this wut we have been expecting?
by [email protected] (Jul 8, 2005)
I just came home from watchin F4 in a movie theater with 2 of my other friends. Honestly i should say that it wasnt quite wut i was expecting it to be. I have been a fan of this movie for nearly 2 years, when i just heard the news of it being announced. I was all excited, and ready to enjoy 2 hours of real kewl action, instead i got like 3 minutes of real kewl action.
I just wanna say, that the director did a good job, and all the actors were, great, but there was just somethin that just wasnt rite. F4 was a little bit of a dissipointment.
First i wanna talk about the storyline. Its a little cheesy, talkin about space, and those weird lights, thats a little unrealistic. The whole movie involves a lot of talkin and basically its fantastic 4 trying to built a machine that can transform them back, while Johny Storm A.K.A. is enjoyin himself as "The Human Torch". I kind of got bored watchin them buildin the machine and showin how famouse they are. I think that the director should have included a lot more action scenes, like crim fighting or somethin.
Lets talk about actin. All 4 members of the crew did a great job, and i respect em for dat, but most of all i would like to say that the best job in this movie was done by Julian McMahon a.k.a Dr. Doom. I am a fan of dis guy for a long time now, he is like my idol. He is a pretty kool actor, and he knows wut he is doin. I saw him for da first time in charmed, and then nip/tuck which is also a great show. I just wanna say that he is a great actor. Lets talk about The Thing. I mean COMMON!!! wut was that!!!?? they should have made it 3d like they did with Hulk, this was likle a freakin chicken suit. This is wut makes this movie so bad.
The visuals. Well i liked da visuals, most of all i liked the "flame On" part, it was pretty kewl. But in overall all the visuals looked kind of cheap. Mr. Fantastic stretchin visual was really cheap, i didnt like it. Dr doom visuals were pretty good. i liked those.
The last thing that i would like to say is that, i think that people should go watch this movie. It wasa good movie, but maybe not for me, when i saw the trailer for the first time, i was reall really excited, but now, i just lost it. I just wish they would have included more fightin scenes, and more special effects. Ya and one more thing, the jokes in the movie are pretty funy, dats wut i liked . haha! Well u guys and girls should go c this in da movie theater, i hope it makes no less than daredevil and the hulk, i like daredevil by the way, it was pretty kewl. Most of all i liked The Punisher! It has a lot of brutal action, and its kind of realistic. Spiderman SUX ASS! hate dat *****! Raimi messed it up! Anyways,, you should go watch it, but make sure u watch the punisher, dats a good movie! well good luck!
Did I like the movie?
overall, YES.
I read almost all of the reviews on Rottentomatoes.com.....and most of them were horrible ratings. I walked in expecting Halle Berry's Catwoman, Elektra, or Batman & Robin, but I was pleasantly surprised it was actually a decent popcorn flick. I knew it was going to be cheesy, mediocre acting, and just plain colorful and that was what I got. Ben Grimm as the Thing? I didn't have any problems with it....CGI can look horrible at times but with the suit, they actually managed to have Ben move his eyes and mouth as if they're part of his hard-rock skin. Johnny Storm had all the puns and the entire theater was laughing. Jessica Alba....hot enough to forgive any subpar acting skills. Reed was just what I expected him to be....sort of a Egon Spangler from Ghostbusters. Doom was threatening enough.
If you think about it, critics hated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and called Mortal Kombat abysmal. But guess what, fans actually liked those movies yet majority of them hated Hulk, Elektra, and Catwoman. SERIOUSLY, don't go in with high expectations and you'll come out with a smile. Just keep thinking it's supposed to be fun and the exact opposite of Batman Begins and you'll be rewarded.
It's no masterpiece, but did I like it. Yeah.
Storywise don't expect anything too groundbreaking from FF. It is purely an action/comedy/comic book film and has no pretensions about being anything more. The movie doesn't take itself too seriously. Which I find refreshing. It does take itself seriously enough though to not go down the route of the Schumacher Batman films. It is light, entertaining and enjoyable.
It manages to capture the essence of the FF being a celebrated superhero team, as opposed to the outlaw X-Men and Spider-Man. It also portrays to us that these aren't superheroes per se they are ordinary people who managed to stumble upon power and reluctantly must take on the mantle of "hero". They squabble between themselves, they fight, they're a family.
Tim Story delivered a pretty stylish movie overall. It wasn't about huge action scenes... it was about little subtleties.
The special effects were good (although they do seem a little anticlimactic due to the "Incredibles Power Rip-Off"😉 but the characters do use their abilities in innovative ways. The best visual effects were probably of The Human Torch.
Gruffudd does well adopting the character of the reluctant hero and leader, Reed. He does a good job of showing how the most brilliant man in the world can still be wrought with self-doubt and be so blind to the blatantly obvious. Chiklis (although the suit did not look "fantastic"😉 gave a pretty good performance too as Ben Grimm, with the most tragic of the transformations (although the transform back and forth was superfluous). If he had been CGI like the Hulk though I imagine it would not have been as effective. The actor is what made the character believable and it helped to be able to see the subtle movement's of his face and the emotion in his eyes.
Evans was Johnny Storm, little more to be said, he was a cocky prankster you want to throttle... but he was a likable cocky prankster you want to throttle. He did a solid job and provides most of the humour. Alba was unconvincing as a female geneticist, but that may be more to preconceptions about what a geneticist should be. Irregardless though because she served her main purpose as eyecandy for the masses. Alba and Gruffudd do have good scenes together though but adding McMahon's Doom into the equation doesn't always work well.
Doom might have been overplayed a bit... he never really seemed that menacing and brilliant to me... more like a petty person, a bit creepy, whose stumbled upon power and wants revenge. Not a man of power and genius. Of course the kind of character development to explain the comic Doom to the general public would take an entire movie in itself.
Overall it was a solid enjoyable film and the good start to a potential franchise.
Roger Ebert wrote a review that was posted at gamefaqs that made all the comic nerds go berserk. Especially about his power comparisons.
Storm and Invisible Woman? C'mon!
Originally posted by Swanky-Tuna
Roger Ebert wrote a review that was posted at gamefaqs that made all the comic nerds go berserk. Especially about his power comparisons.Storm and Invisible Woman? C'mon!
I personally don't care about how many stars or whether it got a thumbs up or thumbs down.
Because while Ebert and Reoper are usually justified in what they say, it is usually them over analyzing the movie. Just like most critics do.
I sit back and watch the movie and then form my own opinion on it. I say which movie I was more entertained by.
And to be honest, I was more entertained by the special effects, the creative ways they used their powers and the light-toned humor of Fantastic Four than the dark, moody and slow-moving Batman Begins movie. In fact, that was my main problem with the Batman Begins: Yes, it was nice to see them take the time to nicely develop Bruce Wayne's transition into Batman, but it just simply took too long.
While BB had a more compelling story, FF was just simply more fun to watch.
how come doom's electricity can crack or shatter the thing?
My only guess is that the cosmic rays somehow hold his rocks in place. But it is just one of those times where you just have to suspend your disbelief. In a world that asks you believe that cosmic rays somehow change 5 different people in 5 different ways, you just kind of have to accept that Thing's rocky surface would be held together even after being hit by electricity.
Originally posted by Swanky-Tuna
Roger Ebert wrote a review that was posted at faqs that made all the comic nerds go berserk. Especially about his power comparisons.Storm and Invisible Woman? C'mon!
Ebert lost all street credit with that Clint Eastwood movie Pale rider.He panned it,but when it won a few awards he gave a new review.What a fat ass pud.
Anyway..I think the movie was very entertaining.Fans will like it more than the norm,but oh well.You can tell this movie was made more for us anyway.I'm greatful for that.The plot was decent and I belive each actor played the part damn near perfect.
My review:B+