Fantastic Four

[Mark Thibodeau]

Thanks to the critical drubbing this film received - at least
partially due to the horrible pre-release publicity about director
Josh Trank's awful behind the scenes behavior and the cast and crew's
unprecedented pre-release dissing of the film - not to mention the now
fairly universally accepted notions that 1) only Marvel Studios can do
proper justice to Marvel Comics properties*, and 2), that the
Fantastic Four is a particularly difficult, if not impossible,
property to translate successfully into motion pictures - I went in
with low expectations. I was therefore somewhat surprised to discover
myself sufficiently diverted, entertained and engaged.

Is this the film that such a property - the veritable fountainhead
from whence gushed forth the entire Marvel Universe, heralding comics'
much ballyhoo'd Marvel Age - deserves? Certainly not.

Is it one of the worst films of the year? Not by a long shot.

Jerky

* Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, and the second X-Men film
excepted, of course.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 9:34 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been doing some Holiday binge watching, re-upping on some Marvel movies
> better left watching in the comfortable confines of my own home. I'm a big
> fan of the Fantastic Four, but they haven't really made their mark on the
> silver screen, at least as fat as the critics and the all important audience
> is concerned. Anyway, the school in the beginning of the film where Reed
> Richards is attending, along with a young Ben Grimm, is located in Oyster
> Bay, NY! The location of Mr. Pynchon's HS... In the film Reed tells his
> class that he is working on a device that teleports matter. I just started
> watching but felt oddly inclined to share. Hope everyone had and is having a
> wonderful Holiday!
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